Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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.

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

Scottish Proverb

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

10.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

11.

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

12.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Proverb, French

14.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

19.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

28.

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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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.

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

Pitman

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

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

40.

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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria