Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Paul Klee

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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 whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Ovid

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bixton, Charles

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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