Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Proverb, Polish

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.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

11.

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

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Mccullers, Carson

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You love what you find time to do.

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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