Motivational Quotes

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

Best Quotes about Time

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

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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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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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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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

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Churchill, Winston