Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

- Schwartz, Delmore

Best Quotes about Time

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

Tracy, Brian

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Townsend, Robert

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

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

Fleming, Ian

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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

10.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

18.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Douglas, Norman

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

27.

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Bible

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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