Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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

Paul Klee

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

John F. Kennedy

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

10.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

11.

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

12.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

20.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

23.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

28.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

29.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

30.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

32.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

34.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

35.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Plutarch

38.

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

Mark Twain

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

42.

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Murdock, Mike

44.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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.

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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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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