Motivational Quotes

Time

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Time

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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.

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

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

11.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

12.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

13.

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

Orben, Robert

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Paz, Octavio

18.

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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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.

27.

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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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

35.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

41.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Chesterfield, Lord