Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Taylor, James

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pitman

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Plutarch

15.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Dickens, Charles

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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 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

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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

25.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.