Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

- Harper, Lucille S.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Paz, Octavio

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Book, William Frederick