Motivational Quotes

Time

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Arthorne, John

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von