Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Field, Franklin

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Buxton, Charles

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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 hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Pitman

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

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Malcolm Forbes

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

44.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.