Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Bonnie Friedman

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Jonson, Ben

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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You love what you find time to do.

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Malcolm Forbes

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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 best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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