Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Bible

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Greene, Graham

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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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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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

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

Otway, Thomas

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Fleming, Ian

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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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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