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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Plutarch

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Buxton, Charles

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

12.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Hodgson, Ralph

15.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

25.

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

Wells, H.G.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

28.

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.

29.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

30.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

32.

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

Mark Twain

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Otway, Thomas

42.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

43.

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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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