Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Time

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

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Murdock, Mike

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.