Motivational Quotes

Time

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

William Shakespeare

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Marx, Groucho

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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.

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

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

Bible

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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

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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.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo