Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bonnie Friedman

Best Quotes about Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

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

Maria Edgeworth

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Paz, Octavio

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Polish

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Paul Klee

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord