Motivational Quotes

Time

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Time

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, English

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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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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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 and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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