Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

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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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Field, Franklin

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

Chanel, Coco

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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.

Iacocca, Lee

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Arthorne, John

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.