Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Bixton, Charles

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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Orben, Robert

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

Paz, Octavio

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

John F. Kennedy

18.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Arthorne, John

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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim