Motivational Quotes

Time

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dickens, Charles

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Murdock, Mike

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bixton, Charles

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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