Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Marx, Groucho

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Cowley, Abraham

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

John F. Kennedy

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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 the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

43.

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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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