Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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