Motivational Quotes

Time

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

- Howe, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

10.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

11.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

14.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

15.

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

Lakein, Alan

16.

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

Levenson, Samuel

17.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

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

Spencer, Herbert

19.

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

20.

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

Taylor, James

23.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

26.

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

Paz, Octavio

28.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

29.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

30.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

33.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

35.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

39.

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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

42.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.