Motivational Quotes

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Time

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

Book, William Frederick

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

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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 soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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