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

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

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Jef Mallett

12.

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

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.