Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

17.

You love what you find time to do.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

21.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

22.

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.

23.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Geneen, Harold S.

33.

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

34.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Churchill, Winston

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

40.

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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

42.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

43.

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

Tracy, Brian

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

48.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

49.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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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.