Motivational Quotes

Time

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Time

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

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

Pitman

10.

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

Ovid

11.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

12.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

14.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Bible

16.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

17.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

18.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

21.

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

Jef Mallett

22.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Field, Franklin

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

28.

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.

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

31.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

35.

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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

38.

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

Dane, Frank

39.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

40.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

43.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

46.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

48.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

49.

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