Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Paul Klee

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mark Twain

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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

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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

33.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

34.

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

Pitman

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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Bixton, Charles

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

42.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

44.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

45.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Orben, Robert

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham