Motivational Quotes

Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Best Quotes about Time

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

13.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Kennedy, John F.

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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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

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward