Motivational Quotes

Time

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

12.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

18.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

19.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

23.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Wanamaker, John

25.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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

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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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

31.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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 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

40.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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