Motivational Quotes

Time

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

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

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

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Proverb, English

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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

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

Blake, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pitman

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

30.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

46.

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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.