Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

11.

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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

15.

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

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cowley, Abraham

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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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

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Arthorne, John

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

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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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

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

47.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I