Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

Malcolm Forbes

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

17.

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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

20.

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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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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

23.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Arthorne, John

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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 discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid