Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

11.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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You love what you find time to do.

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

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bixton, Charles

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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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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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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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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