Motivational Quotes

Time

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

- Hummel, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Time

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Pitman

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Zappa, Frank

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Hodgson, Ralph

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Dane, Frank

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Hummel, Charles E.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Plutarch

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

Orben, Robert

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Taylor, James

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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

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Blake, William

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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