Motivational Quotes

Time

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

You love what you find time to do.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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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

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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