Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Ovid

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

11.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Fleming, Ian

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

William Shakespeare

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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.

22.

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

John F. Kennedy

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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

43.

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

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Lakein, Alan