Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Buscaglia, Leo

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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.

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

Dane, Frank

10.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Paul Klee

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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 an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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You love what you find time to do.

21.

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

22.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

25.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Baltasar Gracian