Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Zappa, Frank

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

10.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

14.

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

15.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

16.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

17.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

28.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Malcolm Forbes

31.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

32.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

33.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

34.

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

Chanel, Coco

35.

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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

43.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

45.

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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

48.

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

49.

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

Jonson, Ben

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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