Motivational Quotes

Time

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rosenberg, Harold

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

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

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

Douglas, Norman

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

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

Pitman

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

Darwin, Charles R.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Jonson, Ben

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Proverb, Polish

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy