Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

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

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

10.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

11.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

14.

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

Dane, Frank

15.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

17.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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You love what you find time to do.

25.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Orben, Robert

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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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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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Simplot, Jack

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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