Motivational Quotes

Time

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

11.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

19.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

20.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

28.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

29.

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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Pitman

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Taylor, James

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.