Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Rosenberg, Harold

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

21.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

23.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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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

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

35.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Mark Twain

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Townsend, Robert

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.