Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Baltasar Gracian

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

10.

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

11.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

13.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Taylor, James

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

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.

18.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

William Shakespeare

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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

25.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

31.

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

Proverb, English

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

33.

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

39.

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

Mccullers, Carson

40.

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

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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.

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

48.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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