Motivational Quotes

Time

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Mark Twain

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Scottish Proverb

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pitman

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Bonnie Friedman