Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Book, William Frederick

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Franklin, Benjamin

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

Dane, Frank

10.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

11.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

13.

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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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Taylor, James

18.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

25.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

26.

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

Proverb, English

27.

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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

29.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

30.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

31.

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

Berger, John

32.

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

Lakein, Alan

33.

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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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

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

39.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

40.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

41.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

42.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

44.

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

John F. Kennedy

46.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Maria Edgeworth

50.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.