Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

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

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Pericles

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

Frost, Robert

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Zappa, Frank

10.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Proverb, French

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Paul Klee

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Douglas, Norman

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

34.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Maria Edgeworth

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Dane, Frank

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

William Shakespeare

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

43.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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