Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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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.

2.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

4.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

9.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

10.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

11.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

12.

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

Baltasar Gracian

14.

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

15.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

16.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

17.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

18.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Mark Twain

20.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

21.

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.

22.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

Arthorne, John

25.

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

Pitman

26.

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

Tracy, Brian

27.

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

Paz, Octavio

28.

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

Brown, John Mason

29.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

30.

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

Levenson, Samuel

31.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

33.

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

Townsend, Robert

34.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

35.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

36.

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

37.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

38.

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

39.

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

Fleming, Ian

40.

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

41.

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

43.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

45.

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