Motivational Quotes

Time

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

- Richards, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Taylor, James

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

William Shakespeare

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Bergman, Jack

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Townsend, Robert

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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

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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

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Orben, Robert

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Lakein, Alan

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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.

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Tracy, Brian

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You love what you find time to do.

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

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Douglas, Norman

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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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