Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

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

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Buscaglia, Leo

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Taylor, James

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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