Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Time

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

Arthorne, John

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Plutarch

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

You love what you find time to do.

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Buxton, Charles

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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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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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.

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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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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.