Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

- Douglas Adams

Best Quotes about Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Otway, Thomas

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

Williams, Tennessee

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

14.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

15.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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

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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.

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

Greene, Graham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

28.

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

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

32.

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

Orben, Robert

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Dane, Frank

42.

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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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