Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Time

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

19.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Darwin, Charles R.

22.

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

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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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

40.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Plutarch

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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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William