Motivational Quotes

Time

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Pitman

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John