Motivational Quotes

Time

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

- Paul Klee

Best Quotes about Time

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Arthorne, John

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare