Motivational Quotes

Time

Make a good use of the present.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Time

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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

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

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Orben, Robert

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Dane, Frank

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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 has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Greene, Graham

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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