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

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

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.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Greene, Graham

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

15.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

18.

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

19.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Ovid

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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

40.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.