Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Lakein, Alan

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Orben, Robert

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

10.

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

11.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

12.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

13.

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

Brown, John Mason

14.

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

Bixton, Charles

15.

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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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

17.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

18.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

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

20.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

21.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

22.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

23.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

24.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

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

26.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

27.

You love what you find time to do.

28.

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

Gissing, George Robert

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

33.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

34.

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

Dane, Frank

35.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

36.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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.

39.

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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Bonnie Friedman

42.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

45.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

48.

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.

49.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

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

Paz, Octavio