Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Paul Klee

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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You love what you find time to do.

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

28.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Marx, Groucho

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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