Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bixton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Taylor, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

John F. Kennedy

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

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

11.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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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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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

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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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

27.

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

28.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

29.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

30.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

34.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

35.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

36.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

38.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

39.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

40.

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

43.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

44.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

Berger, John

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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

47.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

48.

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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Wasted time means wasted lives.