Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Lincoln, Abraham

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

21.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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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

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Spencer, Herbert

40.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis