Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Dickens, Charles

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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