Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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

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

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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

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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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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 money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Bixton, Charles

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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 the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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 is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Proverb, Polish

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David