Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

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

Mark Twain

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

10.

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.

11.

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 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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Pitman

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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

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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You love what you find time to do.

30.

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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Chesterfield, Lord

49.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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