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

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

10.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

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

12.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

13.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

14.

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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

17.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

18.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

19.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

20.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

21.

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

Fleming, Ian

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

23.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

26.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

27.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Plutarch

29.

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

30.

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

Bixton, Charles

31.

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

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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 swifter than our years.

Ovid

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Lakein, Alan

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

40.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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