Motivational Quotes

Time

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Otway, Thomas

10.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

11.

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

Tracy, Brian

12.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

13.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

15.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

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

Buxton, Charles

20.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

21.

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

Frost, Robert

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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

24.

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

25.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Gissing, George Robert

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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

40.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Rosenberg, Harold

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas