Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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.

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

Byron, Lord

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

Dane, Frank

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Townsend, Robert

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fleming, Ian

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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I