Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Mark Twain

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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 is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

John F. Kennedy

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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 is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Paz, Octavio

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Jonson, Ben

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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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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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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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 years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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.

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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Book, William Frederick