Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Dickens, Charles

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Arthorne, John

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

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

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

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.

10.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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You love what you find time to do.

12.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Plutarch

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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 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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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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

Murdock, Mike

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Townsend, Robert

41.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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