Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Field, Franklin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

15.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Lakein, Alan

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, Polish

28.

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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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

39.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Bixton, Charles

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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