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

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 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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Plutarch

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Levenson, Samuel

12.

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

Ovid

13.

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

Tracy, Brian

14.

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

15.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

16.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

18.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

20.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

21.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

22.

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

Pitman

23.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

24.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

25.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

Baltasar Gracian

27.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Townsend, Robert

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

38.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

39.

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

40.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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

44.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

45.

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

Marx, Groucho

46.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

49.

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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar