Motivational Quotes

Time

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

- Book, William Frederick

Best Quotes about Time

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

Frost, Robert

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

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

William Shakespeare

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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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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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

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

Plutarch

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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