Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Pitman

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

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.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar