Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Buxton, Charles

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.

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

Chanel, Coco

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Douglas, Norman

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Taylor, James

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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You love what you find time to do.

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

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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

John F. Kennedy