Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

Best Quotes about Time

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

Buxton, Charles

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

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

Frost, Robert

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

12.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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You love what you find time to do.

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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

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Wells, H.G.

28.

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

John F. Kennedy

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

33.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

48.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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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