Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bixton, Charles

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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 swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Orben, Robert

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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.

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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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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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.