Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Chanel, Coco

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

12.

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

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

17.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

20.

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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Plutarch

26.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

27.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

32.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

33.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

38.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

39.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

40.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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 present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

43.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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 a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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.

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Murdock, Mike

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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