Motivational Quotes

Time

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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 is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

Taylor, James

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

John F. Kennedy

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.

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

10.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

12.

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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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

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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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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

19.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

20.

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

21.

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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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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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

26.

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

Greene, Graham

27.

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

Marx, Groucho

31.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

32.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

34.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

35.

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

Paz, Octavio

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

43.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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