Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

You love what you find time to do.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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 is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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

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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare