Motivational Quotes

Time

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

- Updegraff, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bible

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

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

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

10.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

13.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

15.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

19.

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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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

22.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

23.

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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, English

30.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

37.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

38.

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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

40.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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