Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Taylor, James

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

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Tracy, Brian

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

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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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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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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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