Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

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

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

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.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

11.

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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Orben, Robert

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

21.

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

Proverb, French

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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

28.

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

Frost, Robert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 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 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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

37.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Pitman

40.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Baltasar Gracian

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Arthorne, John