Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dane, Frank

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Lakein, Alan

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Frost, Robert

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Malcolm Forbes

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Lakein, Alan

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Paul Klee

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

W. Somerset Maugham