Motivational Quotes

Time

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

- Ballard, J. G.

Best Quotes about Time

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Hodgson, Ralph

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Kennedy, John F.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Bixton, Charles

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Malcolm Forbes

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

John F. Kennedy

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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 longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Lakein, Alan

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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 rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee