Motivational Quotes

Time

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. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Time

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

Pitman

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

Arthorne, John

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

10.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Angelou, Maya

12.

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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You love what you find time to do.

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tracy, Brian

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

Berger, John

22.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

23.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Blake, William

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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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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Mccullers, Carson

29.

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

Buxton, Charles

30.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

32.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

33.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 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 the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

43.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

45.

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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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Spencer, Herbert

48.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.