Motivational Quotes

Time

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

10.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

11.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

14.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

16.

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

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

You love what you find time to do.

19.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

24.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

32.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John