Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Blake, William

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

10.

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

Baltasar Gracian

11.

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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, French

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Plutarch

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Eckhart, Meister

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chanel, Coco

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Arthorne, John

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom