Motivational Quotes

Time

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

- Bixton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dane, Frank

10.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

11.

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

Ovid

12.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

13.

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

Bonnie Friedman

14.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

17.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

18.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

21.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

25.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

26.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

28.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

32.

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

Jef Mallett

33.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

39.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

41.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

43.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

44.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

48.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

49.

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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.