Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Time

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

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Mark Twain

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Proverb, English

20.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.