Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Chanel, Coco

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

21.

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

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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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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

40.

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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