Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

You love what you find time to do.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Jonson, Ben

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

31.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Book, William Frederick

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

35.

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.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

41.

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

42.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

43.

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

Wanamaker, John

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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