Motivational Quotes

Time

So little time and so little to do.

- Oscar Levant

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Arthorne, John

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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

18.

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

19.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

21.

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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

28.

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

29.

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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

31.

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

Proverb, French

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Frost, Robert

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Murdock, Mike

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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

43.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.