Motivational Quotes

Time

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

- Zappa, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Maria Edgeworth

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

Paz, Octavio

12.

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

Murdock, Mike

13.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

14.

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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

16.

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

17.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

18.

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

19.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

22.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

24.

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

Buxton, Charles

25.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

26.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

27.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

28.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Taylor, James

30.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

38.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

39.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

40.

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

41.

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

42.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal