Motivational Quotes

Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Baltasar Gracian

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Blake, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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You love what you find time to do.

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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Polish

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Marx, Groucho