Motivational Quotes

Time

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

- Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

Murdock, Mike

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Frost, Robert

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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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 the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, French

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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