Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bible

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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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

Dane, Frank

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

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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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

12.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Levenson, Samuel

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

22.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

23.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

24.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

28.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

29.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

32.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Greene, Graham

40.

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

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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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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

46.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

48.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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