Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Bergman, Jack

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

10.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

11.

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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

13.

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

Arthorne, John

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

John F. Kennedy

17.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Plutarch

19.

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

Bonnie Friedman

20.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

21.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

22.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

27.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

28.

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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

32.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

33.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Williams, Tennessee

38.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

41.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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.

45.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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