Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

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

Paul Klee

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Taylor, James

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

Dane, Frank

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Arthorne, John

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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.

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