Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Franklin, Benjamin

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

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

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Plutarch

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Proverb, French

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Book, William Frederick

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes