Motivational Quotes

Time

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Time

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

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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 only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Pitman

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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