Motivational Quotes

Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Chanel, Coco

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Rohn, Jim

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.