Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bergman, Jack

Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Greene, Graham

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

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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Frost, Robert

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Pericles

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Paul Klee

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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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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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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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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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