Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

17.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Simplot, Jack

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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 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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Proverb, French

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

Kennedy, John F.

42.

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, 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