Motivational Quotes

Time

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

- Malcolm Forbes

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Zappa, Frank

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

10.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

12.

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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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 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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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

39.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Ovid

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Taylor, James

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