Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

10.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

11.

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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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'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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

17.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Greene, Graham

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Simplot, Jack

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Arthorne, John

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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