Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Arthorne, John

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Mark Twain

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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