Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

You love what you find time to do.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Douglas, Norman

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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.

27.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

31.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Lakein, Alan

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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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