Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

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

10.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

11.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

12.

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

Ovid

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

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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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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

29.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

30.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

32.

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 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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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

35.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

37.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Levenson, Samuel

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg