Motivational Quotes

Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Orben, Robert

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

John F. Kennedy

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

33.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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.

Swatch

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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