Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Taylor, James

Best Quotes about Time

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

Tracy, Brian

One thing you can't recycle is wasted 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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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.

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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'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 the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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

35.

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

Fleming, Ian

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

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

Brown, John Mason

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

41.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Plutarch