Motivational Quotes

Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

10.

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

Taylor, James

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

Dane, Frank

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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 as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Baltasar Gracian

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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

28.

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

Paul Klee

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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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 = 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's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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

46.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

49.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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.

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