Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Time

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

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Frost, Robert

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

10.

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

11.

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

Plutarch

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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You love what you find time to do.

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Taylor, James

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

32.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby