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

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

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Schwartz, Delmore

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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

11.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

12.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

21.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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

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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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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 simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Wells, H.G.

29.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

34.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Murdock, Mike

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.