Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Lakein, Alan

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Brown, John Mason

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Frost, Robert

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Greene, Graham

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Bixton, Charles

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Dane, Frank

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

John F. Kennedy

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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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham