Motivational Quotes

Time

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Time

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

10.

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

Simplot, Jack

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Paz, Octavio

19.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Orben, Robert

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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

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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

Baltasar Gracian

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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