Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Time

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Mark Twain

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mccullers, Carson

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

21.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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 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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Arthorne, John

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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.

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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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.