Motivational Quotes

Time

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Greene, Graham

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

10.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

11.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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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.

18.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

19.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

20.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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

24.

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 is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

26.

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

Bible

27.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Dane, Frank

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

33.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

34.

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

Pitman

35.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Baltasar Gracian

38.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

44.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!