Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Taylor, James

Best Quotes about Time

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

Field, Franklin

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Paz, Octavio

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Brown, John Mason

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

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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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 secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Jonson, Ben

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Dane, Frank

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You love what you find time to do.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Buxton, Charles

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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.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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