Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Pitman

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

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

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

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Orben, Robert

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Proverb, English

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.