Motivational Quotes

Time

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Zappa, Frank

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Book, William Frederick

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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 rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

18.

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

Plutarch

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Lakein, Alan

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

25.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

28.

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

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

Buxton, Charles

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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

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

Bergman, Jack

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

39.

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

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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