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

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gissing, George Robert

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Dane, Frank

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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.

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Frost, Robert

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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 are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare