Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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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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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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

25.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

35.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Taylor, James

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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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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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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