Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Bergman, Jack

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Make a good use of the present.

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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

31.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

John F. Kennedy

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

40.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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

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

Arthorne, John

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

Gissing, George Robert

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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