Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

William Shakespeare

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Mark Twain

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Taylor, James

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

Paz, Octavio

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Cowley, Abraham