Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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.

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

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

12.

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

13.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

14.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Plutarch

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Buxton, Charles

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

21.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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.

26.

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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hodgson, Ralph

31.

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

Ovid

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

38.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne