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

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

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Kennedy, John F.

18.

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.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Otway, Thomas

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

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Scottish Proverb

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Taylor, James

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Wanamaker, John