Motivational Quotes

Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Best Quotes about Time

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Chesterfield, Lord

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Pitman

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

10.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

11.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

12.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

13.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

14.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

15.

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

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

19.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

20.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

21.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

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

24.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

25.

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

Malcolm Forbes

26.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

27.

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

Chanel, Coco

28.

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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

32.

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

33.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

34.

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

35.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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

Berger, John

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

42.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

43.

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

Bible

46.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

47.

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.

48.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

49.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.