Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Chesterfield, Lord

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Taylor, James

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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

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

Arthorne, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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