Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Twells, Henry

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

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

Marx, Groucho

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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

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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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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Wells, H.G.

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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

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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

31.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

36.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

42.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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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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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.

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