Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rohn, Jim

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Bonnie Friedman

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

10.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Proverb, Polish

13.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

14.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

15.

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

16.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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

18.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

19.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

20.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

21.

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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Blake, William

25.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

29.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

33.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

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

Buxton, Charles

35.

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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

37.

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.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

39.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

40.

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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dickens, Charles

43.

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

Frost, Robert

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.