Motivational Quotes

Time

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

John F. Kennedy

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Taylor, James

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Tracy, Brian

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

28.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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