Motivational Quotes

Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

10.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

11.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

13.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

14.

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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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

16.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

19.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

William Shakespeare

21.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

24.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

25.

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

Proverb, English

26.

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

Zappa, Frank

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

28.

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

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

30.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

32.

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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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bible

37.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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

Ovid

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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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.