Motivational Quotes

Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

- Foote, Shelby

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Jonson, Ben

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

10.

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

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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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

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

16.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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

20.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

23.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

25.

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

Douglas, Norman

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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

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

Proverb, Polish

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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

29.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Greene, Graham

31.

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

32.

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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.