Motivational Quotes

Time

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

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

Ovid

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

10.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

11.

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

John F. Kennedy

12.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

14.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

15.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

16.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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

21.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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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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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Arthorne, John

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Proverb, English

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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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 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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

50.

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