Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Chanel, Coco

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

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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

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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 dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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 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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Orben, Robert

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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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

Pitman

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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

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

Brown, John Mason

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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