Motivational Quotes

Time

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

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

John F. Kennedy

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

10.

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Proverb, Polish

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

22.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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 is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

45.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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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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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De