Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

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

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Pitman

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Frost, Robert

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

Mark Twain

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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

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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 the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston