Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Douglas, Norman

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

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

William Shakespeare

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

10.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

11.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

12.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

13.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

14.

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

Dane, Frank

15.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

19.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

20.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

21.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

22.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

24.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

25.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

27.

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

Levenson, Samuel

28.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

31.

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

32.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

33.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

34.

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

35.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

36.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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You love what you find time to do.

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish