Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

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

Franklin, Benjamin

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Tracy, Brian

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Otway, Thomas

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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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 money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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You love what you find time to do.

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Pericles

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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Fleming, Ian

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.