Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Time

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Book, William Frederick

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

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.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

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

11.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

12.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

13.

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

14.

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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

16.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

17.

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

18.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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

24.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

25.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

26.

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

Lakein, Alan

27.

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.

28.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

29.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fleming, Ian

31.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

32.

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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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

34.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

39.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

40.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Dickens, Charles

48.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

49.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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.