Motivational Quotes

Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Bible

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Arthorne, John

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Brown, John Mason

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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 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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Paul Klee

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick