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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mark Twain

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

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You love what you find time to do.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Brown, John Mason

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Ovid

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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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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

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Wanamaker, John

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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