Motivational Quotes

Time

Make a good use of the present.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Berger, John

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

Paul Klee

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

10.

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

John F. Kennedy

11.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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You love what you find time to do.

15.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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.

17.

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

18.

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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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 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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Simplot, Jack

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Dane, Frank

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.