Motivational Quotes

Time

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Book, William Frederick

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Geneen, Harold S.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Arthorne, John

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

25.

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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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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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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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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Paul Klee

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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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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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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.