Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Ovid

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Bible

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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

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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

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jef Mallett

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Douglas, Norman

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.