Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Greene, Graham

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Mark Twain

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Proverb, English

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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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 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

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare