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

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

19.

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.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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

24.

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

Jonson, Ben

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

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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 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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

35.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

36.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

41.

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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.