Motivational Quotes

Time

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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 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

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Lakein, Alan

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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 cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Proverb, French

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Taylor, James

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec