Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Taylor, James

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

Jef Mallett

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Pitman

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Proverb, Polish

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Greene, Graham

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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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.