Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schwartz, Delmore

Best Quotes about Time

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

John F. Kennedy

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

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

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

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

12.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

14.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

15.

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

16.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

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

20.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Bixton, Charles

25.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

28.

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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

30.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

31.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

34.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

43.

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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

45.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Spencer, Herbert

48.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

49.

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

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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