Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Otway, Thomas

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Dane, Frank

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Book, William Frederick

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

20.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul Klee

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Scottish Proverb

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

29.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Maria Edgeworth

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

39.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Ovid

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

John F. Kennedy

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

44.

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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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You love what you find time to do.

48.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles