Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Field, Franklin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

11.

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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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.

24.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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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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.

27.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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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

33.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Blake, William

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

Frost, Robert

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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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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 simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb