Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Dane, Frank

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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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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

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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 is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John