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

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Greene, Graham

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

10.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

11.

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 crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Paul Klee

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

20.

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 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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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 am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

25.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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 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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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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.