Motivational Quotes

Time

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

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

Rohn, Jim

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, 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 is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Greene, Graham

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

Taylor, James

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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

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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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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

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Paul Klee

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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