Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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.

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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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

Ovid

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

30.

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

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

Ovid

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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 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