Motivational Quotes

Time

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

- Proverb, Polish

Best Quotes about Time

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Spencer, Herbert

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Taylor, James

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Berger, John

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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

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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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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor