Motivational Quotes

Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Time

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

Book, William Frederick

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

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

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

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Spencer, Herbert

15.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Tracy, Brian

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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You love what you find time to do.

39.

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

Paul Klee

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin