Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bixton, Charles

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

10.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Dane, Frank

12.

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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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

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

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

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Pericles

19.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

20.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

21.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

22.

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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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.

24.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

25.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

29.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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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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

32.

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

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

34.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

35.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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 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.

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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

39.

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

Mccullers, Carson

40.

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

41.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

42.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

43.

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

Murdock, Mike

44.

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

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Simplot, Jack

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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

49.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.