Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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 infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Jef Mallett

10.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

11.

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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

15.

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

Cowley, Abraham

16.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

17.

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

Lakein, Alan

18.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

19.

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

20.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

22.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

30.

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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

35.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

William Shakespeare

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

45.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.