Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

10.

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

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

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

Bible

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

John F. Kennedy

15.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

19.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

William Shakespeare

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You love what you find time to do.

22.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

25.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

28.

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

29.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

30.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

31.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

32.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

34.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Pitman

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

Fleming, Ian

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Townsend, Robert

41.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

43.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Greene, Graham

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von