Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Time

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Wilde, Oscar

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

John F. Kennedy

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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You love what you find time to do.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

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

Gissing, George Robert

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Arthorne, John

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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