Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Paul Klee

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Wanamaker, John

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

16.

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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

18.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

20.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

21.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

24.

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

John F. Kennedy

25.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

26.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

27.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

28.

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

Book, William Frederick

29.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

30.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Cowley, Abraham

33.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paz, Octavio

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

40.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

42.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

47.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria