Motivational Quotes

Time

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

- Litchfield, P. W.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Jef Mallett

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Taylor, James

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Proverb, Polish

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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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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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee