Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Best Quotes about Time

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

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

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

12.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

17.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

18.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

19.

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.

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Frost, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Otway, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Proverb, French

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De