Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

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

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

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

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

You love what you find time to do.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Ovid

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

23.

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

27.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

28.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

35.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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