Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Field, Franklin

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

Buxton, Charles

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

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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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

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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You love what you find time to do.

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Bonnie Friedman

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Arthorne, John

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Taylor, James

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

Proverb, Polish

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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