Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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.

Swatch

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

Taylor, James

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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 supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.