Motivational Quotes

Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Proverb, English

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Chanel, Coco

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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