Motivational Quotes

Time

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

- Churchill, Winston

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.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hodgson, Ralph

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Taylor, James

17.

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

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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 glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

20.

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

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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

22.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

23.

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

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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 is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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You love what you find time to do.

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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

35.

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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

40.

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

Book, William Frederick

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

46.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.