Motivational Quotes

Time

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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 is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Taylor, James

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco