Motivational Quotes

Time

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

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

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

Douglas, Norman

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dickens, Charles

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Ovid

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

Dane, Frank

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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You love what you find time to do.

29.

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

Pitman

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.