Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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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

11.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

12.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

13.

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

Bixton, Charles

14.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

28.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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

31.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

33.

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Wanamaker, John

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Levenson, Samuel

44.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

45.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

46.

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, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Marx, Groucho

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French