Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Time

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

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

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

10.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

12.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

13.

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

Plutarch

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

15.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

16.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

19.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

21.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

23.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

24.

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.

25.

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

Bixton, Charles

26.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

29.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

30.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

31.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

33.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

38.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

41.

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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

43.

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

Tracy, Brian

44.

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

Frost, Robert

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.