Motivational Quotes

Time

He that rises late must trot all day.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

11.

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

Ovid

12.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

13.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

16.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

24.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

25.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

26.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

27.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

28.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

29.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

30.

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

Greene, Graham

33.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

35.

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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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 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.

39.

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch