Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Time

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

11.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

13.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

14.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Pitman

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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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

21.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Taylor, James

24.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne