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

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Berger, John

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Buxton, Charles

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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.

11.

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

Maria Edgeworth

12.

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

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

15.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

18.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Arthorne, John

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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

32.

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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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

35.

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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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

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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 love what you find time to do.

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

44.

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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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English