Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

- Brisbane, Arthur

Best Quotes about Time

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

Otway, Thomas

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

Kennedy, John F.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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

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

Taylor, James

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

10.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

11.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 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 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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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

25.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

28.

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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

33.

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

34.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

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

Proverb, Polish

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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

40.

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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Proverb, French

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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