Motivational Quotes

Time

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

14.

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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Arthorne, John

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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 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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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 infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

44.

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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Blake, William

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