Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

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

Proverb, English

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Ovid

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Mark Twain

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Simplot, Jack

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.