Motivational Quotes

Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Time

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

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

John F. Kennedy

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bergman, Jack

13.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

15.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

18.

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

Plutarch

19.

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

Simplot, Jack

20.

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

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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.

23.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

24.

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

25.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Scottish Proverb

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

28.

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

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Proverb, Polish

32.

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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.