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

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Levenson, Samuel

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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

Chanel, Coco

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.

Fromm, Erich

10.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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You love what you find time to do.

12.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Buxton, Charles

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Bixton, Charles

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

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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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

43.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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