Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Wanamaker, John

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

John F. Kennedy

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Jonson, Ben

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

33.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Marx, Groucho

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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