Motivational Quotes

Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward