Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wilde, Oscar

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

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

Book, William Frederick

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

12.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

13.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

14.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

17.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

23.

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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

26.

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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Simplot, Jack

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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

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

44.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

47.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen