Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

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

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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.

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

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

10.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

11.

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

Kennedy, John F.

12.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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 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 is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

17.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Jef Mallett

19.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

20.

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

21.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

24.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

25.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

27.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

29.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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

Greene, Graham

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

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

Dane, Frank

34.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

37.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Otway, Thomas

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!