Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Frost, Robert

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

Pericles

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

19.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Taylor, James

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

31.

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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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

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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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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson