Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

11.

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

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Taylor, James

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

Lakein, Alan

16.

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

17.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

18.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

19.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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

Gissing, George Robert

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

33.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

34.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

35.

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

Buxton, Charles

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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 the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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