Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Orben, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

11.

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

Proverb, Polish

12.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

14.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

15.

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.

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

23.

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

26.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

27.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

33.

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

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

35.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

39.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

41.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Proverb, English

49.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Cowley, Abraham