Motivational Quotes

Time

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

10.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

17.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

18.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

20.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

23.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

25.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

26.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

27.

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.

28.

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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

36.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

38.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Paz, Octavio

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?