Motivational Quotes

Time

Monday is the key day of the week.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Time

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Ovid

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Otway, Thomas

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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 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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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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

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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

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

Dane, Frank

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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