Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

Tracy, Brian

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.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

12.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

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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

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

Orben, Robert

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Taylor, James

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Paul Klee

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

45.

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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.