Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Time

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

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

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

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

Baltasar Gracian

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

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

10.

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

Mccullers, Carson

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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 the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

Paz, Octavio

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

28.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

34.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

John F. Kennedy

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

47.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

48.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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.