Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Schwartz, Delmore

Best Quotes about Time

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

John F. Kennedy

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

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

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

Proverb, English

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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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

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Townsend, Robert

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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.