Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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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

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Orben, Robert

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

William Shakespeare

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Taylor, James

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.