Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.Thomas EdisonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Motivational Time Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
He that has time has life.English ProverbTraditional attribution
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.Jim RohnAttributed in the original GADEL collection
An ounce of gold will not buy an inch of time.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.M. Scott PeckAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.TheophrastusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.Baltasar GracianAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Your greatest resource is your time.Brian TracyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time is money.Benjamin FranklinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.Peter F. DruckerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time is the coin of your life.Carl SandburgAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.Charles BruxtonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.Michael AltshulerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.Jean De La BruyereAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: “I did not have time.Franklin FieldAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don’t say you don’t have enough time.H. Jackson BrownAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time and tide wait for no one.Irish ProverbTraditional attribution
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree.John F. KennedyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Wasting time is robbing oneself.Estonian ProverbTraditional attribution
Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.Benjamin FranklinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If you don’t have time to do it right, you must have time to do it over.Russian ProverbTraditional attribution
Time is like a snowflake–it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.AnonymousTraditional attribution
While we are postponing, life speeds by.SenecaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.Alice BlochAttributed in the original GADEL collection
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.Scottish ProverbTraditional attribution
Lost time is never found again.Benjamin FranklinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time.Author UnknownTraditional attribution
Time flies like an arrow.Japanese ProverbTraditional attribution
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.Samuel SmilesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.Thomas FullerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
No time to waste like the present.English ProverbTraditional attribution
God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.Marianne WilliamsonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.AnonymousTraditional attribution
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.Carl SandburgAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Never let yesterday use up today.Richard H. NelsonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.Thomas P. MurphyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.Art BuchwaldAttributed in the original GADEL collection
This is the beginning of a new day.Author UnknownTraditional attribution
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.Lord ChesterfieldAttributed in the original GADEL collection
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.John MasonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Every moment is golden.English ProverbTraditional attribution
Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours.AnonymousTraditional attribution
You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time.Doc Childre and Howard MartinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?Henry David ThoreauAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.Isaac PitmanAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Modern man thinks he loses something–time–when he does not do things quickly.Erich FrommAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We will always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Better to take your time.Roman ProverbTraditional attribution
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.Lee IacoccaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.Stephen R. CoveyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don’t be fooled by the calendar.Charles RichardsAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Those who know the value of time use it in preparation for eternity.DugnetAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.Author UnknownTraditional attribution
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.William PennAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.Alan LakeinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Determine never to be idle.Thomas JeffersonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.Charles DarwinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.RodinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.AeschylusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Time is the wisest counselor of all.PericlesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
He that neglects time, time will neglect.Spanish ProverbTraditional attribution
Hour by hour time departs.Italian ProverbTraditional attribution
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
Time is free, but it’s priceless.Harvey MacKayAttributed in the original GADEL collection
To do two things at once is to do neither.Publius SyrusAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.Albert EinsteinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Everything has its time.Portuguese ProverbTraditional attribution
Time is eternity begun.James MontgomeryAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You don’t need a watch to know when it’s time to die.Yiddish ProverbTraditional attribution
Original collection & source
Original title: Motivational Time Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
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