Motivational Quotes

Time

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 present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Field, Franklin

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

Maria Edgeworth

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Plutarch

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich