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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

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.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

28.

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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lakein, Alan

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

39.

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

Proverb, English

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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

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

42.

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

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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

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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!