Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Wanamaker, John

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Taylor, James

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

Ovid

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

18.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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

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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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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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 the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lakein, Alan

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rohn, Jim

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee