Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

10.

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

Mccullers, Carson

11.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Plutarch

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

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

Paul Klee

19.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie 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 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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

26.

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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

28.

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

29.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

36.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Orben, Robert

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

Book, William Frederick

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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