Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

Best Quotes about Time

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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

Proverb, English

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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 people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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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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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Pitman

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Jef Mallett

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.