Motivational Quotes

Time

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

- Success Magazine

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

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

Pitman

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

11.

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

Wanamaker, John

12.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

13.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

17.

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

Buxton, Charles

18.

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

Maria Edgeworth

19.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

20.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

21.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

22.

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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

24.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

25.

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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Halifax, Edward F.

30.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

35.

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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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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

39.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

40.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

41.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

43.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

48.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus