Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

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

Marx, Groucho

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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