Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

You love what you find time to do.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

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

William Shakespeare

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

12.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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 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

28.

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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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

32.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

35.

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

Proverb, Polish

36.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Jonson, Ben

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

44.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Simplot, Jack