Motivational Quotes

Time

He that rises late must trot all day.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

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

Field, Franklin

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

Mccullers, Carson

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Gissing, George Robert

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

10.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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 an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

15.

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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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

18.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Paul Klee

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

24.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

25.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Brown, John Mason

27.

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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

30.

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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Levenson, Samuel

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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