Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Blake, William

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Levenson, Samuel

11.

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

Mark Twain

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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

Plutarch

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

20.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

27.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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 will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

38.

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

Proverb, English

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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

40.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

47.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

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