Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Time

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

11.

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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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

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

Taylor, James

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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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 is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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 present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Paul Klee

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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.