Motivational Quotes

Time

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

- Bennet, Arnold

Best Quotes about Time

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Cowley, Abraham

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Greene, Graham

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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 does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

17.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

18.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

20.

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

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Bixton, Charles

43.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.