Motivational Quotes

Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Dane, Frank

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

Proverb, French

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Taylor, James

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Arthorne, 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 is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

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

Mark Twain

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine