Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bixton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

21.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

22.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Arthorne, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Ovid

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

Bixton, Charles

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb, French

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

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

43.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Churchill, Winston