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

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.

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Orben, Robert

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Chanel, Coco

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

William Shakespeare

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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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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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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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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 the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Chesterfield, Lord