Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Taylor, James

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Buxton, Charles

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

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

11.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wanamaker, John

18.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

20.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

21.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

25.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

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

Tracy, Brian

28.

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

Zappa, Frank

29.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

30.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Arthorne, John

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

33.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

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

Dane, Frank

35.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

40.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

45.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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 the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch