Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Buscaglia, Leo

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brown, John Mason

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Simplot, Jack

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

28.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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