Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

You love what you find time to do.

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

Orben, Robert

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Brown, John Mason

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Bible

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Pitman

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Simplot, Jack