Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Time

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, English

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Dane, Frank

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

Pitman

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Tracy, Brian

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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