Motivational Quotes

Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

- Half, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Proverb, French

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Taylor, James

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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.

Swatch

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

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Chanel, Coco

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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