Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Bible

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Paz, Octavio

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

John F. Kennedy

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.