Motivational Quotes

Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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 best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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

Greene, Graham

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Proverb, French

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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