Motivational Quotes

Time

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

- Wilder, Thornton

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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

Jef Mallett

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Townsend, Robert

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

22.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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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

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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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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