Motivational Quotes

Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Time

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Arthorne, John

10.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, English

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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

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Blake, William

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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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