Motivational Quotes

Time

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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

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

Taylor, James

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

23.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Murdock, Mike

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

47.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John