Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Pitman

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

10.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

11.

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

12.

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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

14.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

15.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

16.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

18.

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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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

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Proverb, English

28.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

32.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

38.

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

Jef Mallett

39.

You love what you find time to do.

40.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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