Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Paul Klee

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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

Plutarch

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Marx, Groucho

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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