Motivational Quotes

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Time

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Bixton, Charles

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Malcolm Forbes

33.

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

Tracy, Brian

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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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

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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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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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 = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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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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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