Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Pitman

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

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

Wells, H.G.

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

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

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

10.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

11.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

13.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

14.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

15.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

16.

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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

21.

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

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

25.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

30.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

31.

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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

35.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

39.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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.