Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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

William Shakespeare

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

Field, Franklin

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

Chanel, Coco

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Pitman

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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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Taylor, James

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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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 barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paul Klee

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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