Motivational Quotes

Time

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Schwartz, Delmore

10.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

11.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

16.

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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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

18.

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.

19.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

20.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

21.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

22.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

23.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

28.

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

29.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

32.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

34.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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

36.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

38.

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

40.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

41.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

42.

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

Jonson, Ben

43.

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

44.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

50.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert