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

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

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

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

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Paul Klee

10.

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

11.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

15.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

16.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

20.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

21.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

22.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

23.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

26.

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

27.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

29.

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

Levenson, Samuel

30.

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

Ovid

31.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

32.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

33.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

34.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

35.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

40.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

41.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

42.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

43.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

47.

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

48.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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You love what you find time to do.

50.

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

Hodgson, Ralph