Motivational Quotes

Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Proverb, French

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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.

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

Arthorne, John

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Ovid

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Paul Klee

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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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

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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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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?