Motivational Quotes

Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Bergman, Jack

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Pitman

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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