Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Taylor, James

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

14.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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

16.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

24.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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

27.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Arthorne, John

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

31.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Mccullers, Carson

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham