Motivational Quotes

Time

For time is the longest distance between two places.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Time

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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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

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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.

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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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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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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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

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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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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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben