Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pitman

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Marx, Groucho

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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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

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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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

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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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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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare