Motivational Quotes

Time

In politics a week is a very long time.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Time

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

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Douglas, Norman

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

You love what you find time to do.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

32.

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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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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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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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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

39.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

40.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Blake, William

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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.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.