Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mccullers, Carson

Best Quotes about Time

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

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Scottish Proverb

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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