Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

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

Orben, Robert

11.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

21.

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

Greene, Graham

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

24.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

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

Fleming, Ian

28.

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

29.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

30.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Jonson, Ben

38.

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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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

41.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop