Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Paul Klee

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Cowley, Abraham

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

10.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

11.

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

Arthorne, John

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

19.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

42.

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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

45.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.