Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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 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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Proverb, Polish

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

25.

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 just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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 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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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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

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Lakein, Alan