Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

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 discovered truth.

Seneca

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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 is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

John F. Kennedy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

27.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

28.

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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Bonnie Friedman

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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