Motivational Quotes

Time

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

- Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Best Quotes about Time

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

Levenson, Samuel

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, French

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

Greene, Graham

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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.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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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 is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Pitman

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

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