Motivational Quotes

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Marx, Groucho

10.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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.

15.

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

Proverb, English

16.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Dickens, Charles

18.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

19.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

20.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

24.

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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

26.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

27.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

29.

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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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

31.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

33.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

34.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wanamaker, John

40.

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

44.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Spencer, Herbert

48.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.