Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Bonnie Friedman

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Fleming, Ian

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Taylor, James

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Plutarch

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John