Motivational Quotes

Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Ovid

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

Lakein, Alan

11.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

12.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

13.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

14.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

15.

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

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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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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

18.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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

24.

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

Jef Mallett

25.

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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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

28.

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

29.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

30.

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

Maria Edgeworth

31.

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

Arthorne, John

32.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Jonson, Ben

40.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

41.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

45.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Levenson, Samuel