Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Marx, Groucho

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Maria Edgeworth

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Bixton, Charles

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Arthorne, John

11.

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

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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 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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Otway, Thomas

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

36.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Book, William Frederick

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max