Motivational Quotes

Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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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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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

41.

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

Proverb, French

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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