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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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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

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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You love what you find time to do.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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 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

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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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.

48.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles