Motivational Quotes

Time

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

- Marx, Groucho

Best Quotes about Time

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

Wanamaker, John

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Dane, Frank

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

Paz, Octavio

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Murdock, Mike

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Scottish Proverb