Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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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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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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

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

Fleming, Ian

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mark Twain

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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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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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

John F. Kennedy

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.