Motivational Quotes

Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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 spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, French

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Proverb, Polish

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Levenson, Samuel

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

John F. Kennedy