Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Baltasar Gracian

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Bixton, Charles

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

10.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Taylor, James

14.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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

18.

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

Ovid

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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

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

22.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

23.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

34.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

40.

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

41.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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

45.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

46.

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

Buxton, Charles

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