Motivational Quotes

Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Time

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

10.

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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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

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

14.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

19.

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

Taylor, James

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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

22.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

24.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

25.

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

26.

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

Plutarch

27.

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

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

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

Tracy, Brian

30.

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.

31.

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

Lakein, Alan

32.

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

33.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

34.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

38.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

40.

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

Greene, Graham

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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