Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Jonson, Ben

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

11.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Ovid

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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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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

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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 hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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.

28.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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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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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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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

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

34.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

39.

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Polish

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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