Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the only critic without ambition.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

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

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Douglas, Norman

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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

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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

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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.

27.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Maria Edgeworth

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.