Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

- Jim Bishop

Best Quotes about Time

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Paz, Octavio

12.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

13.

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Blake, William

18.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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

20.

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

Tracy, Brian

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Pitman

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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.

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

Orben, Robert

45.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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