Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

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

Buscaglia, Leo

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bixton, Charles

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

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

10.

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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Paul Klee

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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

Taylor, James

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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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

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

John F. Kennedy

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