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

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cowley, Abraham

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Frost, Robert

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Paul Klee

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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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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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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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

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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Plutarch

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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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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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

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

41.

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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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.