Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Mark Twain

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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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