Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

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

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

44.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Arthorne, John

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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