Motivational Quotes

Time

You love what you find time to do.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Townsend, Robert

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Proverb, English

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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.

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 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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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 rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Pitman

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles