Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wells, H.G.

Best Quotes about Time

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Paul Klee

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

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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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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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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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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Orben, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Marx, Groucho

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time