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

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Berger, John

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Fleming, Ian

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

14.

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

Pitman

15.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Blake, William

19.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

20.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

21.

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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

23.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

25.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

27.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

28.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

29.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

30.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

32.

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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

34.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

35.

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

36.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

37.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

38.

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

Buxton, Charles

39.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

40.

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.

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Bible

44.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

45.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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