Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Pitman

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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