Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Taylor, James

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plutarch

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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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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

22.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Proverb, French

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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You love what you find time to do.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pitman