Motivational Quotes

Time

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Jef Mallett

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Fleming, Ian

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Maria Edgeworth

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Levenson, Samuel

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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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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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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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Douglas, Norman