Time Proverbs Quotes

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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

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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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.

  Anthony Charles Richards

  Time, Motivation, Men

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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• Your greatest resource is your time.

  Brian Tracy

  Time, Earning, Assets

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2015

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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

  Lord Acton

  Success, Wise, Time

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  "Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Frustrated, Vision

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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.

  Lee Iacocca

  Time, Discipline, Giving

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Valentines Day, Meaningful, Famous Love

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Keys, Investing

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• The mills of God grind slowly.

  Lord Acton

  Grind, Retribution, Exactness

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• Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Kick Ass, Manage

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• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Time, White Collar

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

  Theophrastus

  Inspirational, Basketball, Time

  Theophrastus (1904). “The characters of Theophrastus”

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• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

  Alton Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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