Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Field, Franklin

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

Bonnie Friedman

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Levenson, Samuel

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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 cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

37.

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

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.