Motivational Quotes

Time

In politics a week is a very long time.

- Wilson, Harold

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Pericles

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

Jef Mallett

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Chanel, Coco

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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 the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Proverb, Polish

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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

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bixton, Charles

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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 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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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