Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Cowley, Abraham

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

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

Levenson, Samuel

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

10.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

11.

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

12.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

13.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

14.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

William Shakespeare

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

19.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

20.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Proverb, Polish

22.

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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Otway, Thomas

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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

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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

32.

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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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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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

37.

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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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

44.

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

45.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

46.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant