Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Jonson, Ben

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

William Shakespeare

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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

18.

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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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

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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 the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

42.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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!