Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Time

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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.

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

Lakein, Alan

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

10.

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

11.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

12.

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

Taylor, James

13.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

14.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

15.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

16.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

18.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Ovid

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

Bible

25.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

30.

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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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

35.

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

37.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Rohn, Jim

42.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

43.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

44.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

46.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

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