Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

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.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lakein, Alan

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.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Fleming, Ian

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Taylor, James

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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

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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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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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.

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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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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

John F. Kennedy

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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 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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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

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.