Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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.

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Pitman

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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 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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Simplot, Jack

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bonnie Friedman

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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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