Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

Orben, Robert

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

12.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

14.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

20.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Ovid

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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.

31.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

William Shakespeare

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

40.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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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 is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley