Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Taylor, James

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

Malcolm Forbes

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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.

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

21.

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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

23.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

30.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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