Motivational Quotes

Time

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Bonnie Friedman

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Arthorne, John

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

John F. Kennedy

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Schwartz, Delmore

18.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

19.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

21.

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

Ovid

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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

27.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

28.

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

Pitman

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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All my possessions for a moment of time.