Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Mark Twain

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

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

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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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

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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

27.

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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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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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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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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 extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Cowley, Abraham