Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Time

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lakein, Alan

10.

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

12.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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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 is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Pericles

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Malcolm Forbes

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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

35.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Wells, H.G.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.