Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Best Quotes about Time

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Marx, Groucho

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Levenson, Samuel

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

12.

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

Proverb, Polish

13.

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

14.

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

Lakein, Alan

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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 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

19.

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

20.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

22.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

23.

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

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

27.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

28.

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

29.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

30.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

33.

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

Baltasar Gracian

34.

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

35.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

36.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

37.

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

Greene, Graham

38.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

39.

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

40.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

41.

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

42.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

43.

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

44.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Gissing, George Robert

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

49.

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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas