Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

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

Mark Twain

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

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

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Greene, Graham

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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 infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

17.

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

Bixton, Charles

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, Polish

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

34.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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You love what you find time to do.

38.

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.

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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Cowley, Abraham