Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dane, Frank

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

Cowley, Abraham

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Wilde, Oscar

You love what you find time to do.

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

William Shakespeare

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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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'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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

John F. Kennedy

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Bible

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

33.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Book, William Frederick

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec