Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

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.

10.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

13.

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

Frost, Robert

14.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

15.

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

16.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

18.

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

Bergman, Jack

19.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

20.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

21.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

22.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

25.

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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

28.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

29.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

34.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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

40.

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Greene, Graham

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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

45.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.