Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, English

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Bergman, Jack

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.