Motivational Quotes

Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Best Quotes about Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mark Twain

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

You love what you find time to do.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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.

10.

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

Berger, John

11.

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

12.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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 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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

21.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

43.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.