Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Brown, John Mason

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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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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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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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Arthorne, John

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Taylor, James

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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

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.