Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Murdock, Mike

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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

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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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

18.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

21.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Frost, Robert

23.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

24.

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

Fleming, Ian

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

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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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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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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Plutarch

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb