Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Time

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

John F. Kennedy

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

10.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

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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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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Orben, Robert

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Spencer, Herbert

32.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

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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

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Frost, Robert

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop