Motivational Quotes

Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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

Plutarch

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Book, William Frederick

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Bonnie Friedman

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Pitman

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold