Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Bixton, Charles

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

You love what you find time to do.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Blake, William

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Tracy, Brian

28.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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 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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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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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

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Mark Twain

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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