Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

- Howe, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

10.

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

11.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

17.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

22.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Blake, William

25.

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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Fleming, Ian

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

29.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

32.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

40.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

45.

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

Simplot, Jack

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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

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.