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Time

You love what you find time to do.

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Best Quotes about Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

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

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

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Malcolm Forbes

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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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

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Blake, William

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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 discovered truth.

Seneca

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Paul Klee

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido