Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

11.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

16.

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

Mccullers, Carson

17.

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

18.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

19.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

20.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

25.

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

Townsend, Robert

26.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

27.

You love what you find time to do.

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

37.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

38.

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

John F. Kennedy

39.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

40.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

41.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

46.

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

Wells, H.G.

47.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

49.

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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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