Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Tracy, Brian

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Blake, William

10.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

Buxton, Charles

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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

30.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Pitman

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

Field, Franklin

39.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew