Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Mccullers, Carson

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward