Motivational Quotes

Time

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

You love what you find time to do.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Zappa, Frank

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

12.

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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

15.

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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

23.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Paul Klee

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Buxton, Charles

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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

32.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

33.

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

34.

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

John F. Kennedy

35.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

36.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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 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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Huxley, Thomas H.