Motivational Quotes

Time

Now is the watchword of the wise.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

12.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bible

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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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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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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

31.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Bixton, Charles

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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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Arthorne, John

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De