Motivational Quotes

Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

- Chuck Sigars

Best Quotes about Time

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Zappa, Frank

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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

19.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Jonson, Ben

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Malcolm Forbes

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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

32.

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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Plutarch

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bixton, Charles

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler