Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Wells, H.G.

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

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

Baltasar Gracian

12.

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.

13.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

14.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

15.

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.

16.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

17.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

18.

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

Cowley, Abraham

19.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

20.

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

Dane, Frank

21.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

23.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Berger, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Book, William Frederick

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

37.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

39.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

40.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

43.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

44.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

45.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

50.

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