Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Churchill, Winston

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Chanel, Coco

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

10.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

11.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

14.

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

Arthorne, John

16.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

18.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

20.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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

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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

28.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

29.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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

45.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Otway, Thomas

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.