Motivational Quotes

Time

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Best Quotes about Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Cowley, Abraham

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.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

Dane, Frank

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

20.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Lakein, Alan

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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'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 will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Paul Klee

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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 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.