Motivational Quotes

Time

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Mark Twain

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

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

Chanel, Coco

10.

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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

13.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

14.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Paz, Octavio

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

20.

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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Zappa, Frank

26.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

27.

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

28.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

29.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

30.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Maria Edgeworth

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Taylor, James

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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