Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Hodgson, Ralph

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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 the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Brown, John Mason

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

37.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles