Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

12.

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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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 is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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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 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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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 the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Douglas, Norman

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Pitman

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

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

Paul Klee

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frost, Robert

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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