Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

Best Quotes about Time

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

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

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dickens, Charles

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Scottish Proverb

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

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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

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

Brown, John Mason

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars