Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bergman, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lakein, Alan

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Churchill, Winston

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

14.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

20.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

28.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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 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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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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

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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.

Richards, Charles

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars