Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Paul Klee

Best Quotes about Time

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Pitman

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

Orben, Robert

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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

23.

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

Buxton, Charles

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Simplot, Jack

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Zappa, Frank

29.

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

Frost, Robert

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

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

John F. Kennedy