Motivational Quotes

Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

You love what you find time to do.

13.

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

Cowley, Abraham

14.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

17.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

18.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

20.

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

Townsend, Robert

21.

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

Scottish Proverb

22.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

23.

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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

25.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

26.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

27.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

28.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

31.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

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

33.

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

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

35.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

36.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

40.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

44.

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 supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

48.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

49.

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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis