Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Kennedy, John F.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pitman

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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.

31.

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.