Motivational Quotes

Time

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Dane, Frank

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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, Polish

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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