Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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 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

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

28.

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

29.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Taylor, James

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec