Motivational Quotes

Time

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

- Qubein, Nido

Best Quotes about Time

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Paul Klee

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

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

Dickens, Charles

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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

11.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Buxton, Charles

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Dane, Frank

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Paz, Octavio

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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

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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Murdock, Mike

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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

42.

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

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Soon enough is well enough.