Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Levenson, Samuel

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Buxton, Charles

10.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

11.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

12.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

19.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

20.

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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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles