Time Quotes - Page 3

• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Memorable, Waste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

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• Your choices decide your fate. Take the time to make the right ones. If you make a mistake, that's fine; learn from it & don't make it again.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2014

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• Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance

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• Tempus fugit (time flies).

  Ovid

  Time Flies

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• If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

  Lee Iacocca

  Discipline, Giving, Choices

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.21, Bantam

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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.

  Erich Fromm

  Learning, Knowledge, Men

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy.

  Domenico Cieri

  Light, Wind, Heavy

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• What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

  Saint Augustine

  Wish, Ask Me, Knows

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (2011). “Confessions”, p.244, Hendrickson Publishers

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• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Motivation

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Gratitude, Add, Influence

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Apr 30, 2013

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• This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Frustrated, Vision, Management

  1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.

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

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Witty, Humorous, Book

  La Naus‚e (Nausea, 1938) "Vendredi"

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• Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

  Max Frisch

  Honesty, Doe

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  Pericles

  Inspirational, Life, Counselor

  "Until Tomorrow Comes". Book by Orville E. Kelly, 1979.

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• Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.

  Percy Cerutty

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

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• Time brings all things to pass.

  Aeschylus

  Time Management, All Things

  Aeschylus (1942). “Aeschylus I”

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• But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Two Nations, Calendars

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.9

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• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

  Mason Cooley

  Regret, Wasted Life, Wasting Time

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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.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Sunset, Yesterday

  'Lost, Two Golden Hours'

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• Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  Adam Hochschild

  Hardship, Distraction, Plentiful

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• Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Stronger, Time Management

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

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Use

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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