Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

10.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

16.

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

17.

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

Greene, Graham

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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.

21.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

25.

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

Proverb, Polish

26.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

33.

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.

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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

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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

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

40.

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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

44.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb