Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Time

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Bible

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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 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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Frost, Robert

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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