Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Book, William Frederick

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

10.

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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

16.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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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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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, French

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

29.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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

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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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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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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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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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