Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bible

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

10.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

11.

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

Proverb, Polish

12.

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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

18.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Arthorne, John

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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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Malcolm Forbes

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

28.

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

Proverb, French

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

Wanamaker, John

31.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

32.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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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

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Otway, Thomas

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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

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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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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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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

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Taylor, James

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

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Plutarch