Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Time

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

19.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Tracy, Brian

23.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Dane, Frank

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Lakein, Alan

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

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

Frost, Robert

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

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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