Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

10.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

11.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

12.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

13.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

16.

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Scottish Proverb

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Plutarch

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

25.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

27.

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

Townsend, Robert

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Frost, Robert

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Bible

39.

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

42.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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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