Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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

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

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

11.

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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Taylor, James

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Blake, William

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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 man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Plutarch

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya