Motivational Quotes

Time

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Bennett, Arnold

10.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

11.

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

Proverb, French

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You love what you find time to do.

14.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Murdock, Mike

25.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Lakein, Alan

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Field, Franklin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De