Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

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

Arthorne, John

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

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

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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

12.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Paul Klee

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

23.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

John F. Kennedy

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

35.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Jef Mallett

39.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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