Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Geneen, Harold S.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Cowley, Abraham

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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 a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Arthorne, John

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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 coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Plutarch

41.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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