Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

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

Otway, Thomas

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Proverb, Polish

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

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

Proverb, English

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Proverb, French

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

William Shakespeare

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

Frost, Robert

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

Douglas, Norman

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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