Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Time

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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

Wanamaker, John

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

10.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

11.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

12.

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

Marx, Groucho

13.

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

14.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

15.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

16.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

17.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

21.

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

Buxton, Charles

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

31.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

33.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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You love what you find time to do.

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

39.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

43.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Book, William Frederick

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

49.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Malcolm Forbes