Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Hodgson, Ralph

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wells, H.G.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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.

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

11.

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

12.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

13.

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

14.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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.

16.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

18.

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

Wanamaker, John

19.

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

Book, William Frederick

20.

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

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

23.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

24.

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

25.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

26.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Frost, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

Marx, Groucho

33.

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

Paz, Octavio

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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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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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

42.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

43.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

44.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

45.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

46.

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

Orben, Robert

47.

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

Brown, John Mason

48.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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.