Motivational Quotes

Time

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Time

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bixton, Charles

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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 just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Paul Klee

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

Kennedy, John F.

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

35.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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You love what you find time to do.

37.

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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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 key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

44.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Mark Twain

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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 a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben