Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

15.

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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

23.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

26.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Proverb, French

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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

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Marx, Groucho

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Plutarch

41.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Lakein, Alan