Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Greene, Graham

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Taylor, James

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Orben, Robert

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