Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

- Cowley, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

11.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

12.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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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

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

Arthorne, John

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Brown, John Mason

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Bixton, Charles

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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