Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

Best Quotes about Time

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Taylor, James

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Plutarch

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Blake, William

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar