Motivational Quotes

Time

Time discovered truth.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Time

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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.

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

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

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

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

20.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

24.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

37.

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

Bible

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.