Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Taylor, James

Best Quotes about Time

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

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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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Dickens, Charles

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Jonson, Ben

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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.

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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Taylor, James