Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Blake, William

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Greene, Graham

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bible

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

Proverb, English

29.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

31.

You love what you find time to do.

32.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Proverb, Polish

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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paul Klee

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Rohn, Jim

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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