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

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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.

17.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

18.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

19.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

21.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

33.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony