Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dane, Frank

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Jef Mallett

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Arthorne, John

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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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