Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Otway, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Pitman

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

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

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

Bible

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

10.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

11.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

16.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

21.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

35.

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

36.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.