Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

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.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

16.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

21.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

26.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

30.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

31.

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

32.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

34.

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

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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

40.

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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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

48.

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

Proverb, English

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy