Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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

Ovid

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

28.

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

Tracy, Brian

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Frost, Robert

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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

41.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin