Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Jef Mallett

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Douglas, Norman

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

15.

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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

John F. Kennedy

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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 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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

34.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

36.

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

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Hodgson, Ralph

40.

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

Brown, John Mason

41.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, French

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

46.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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