Motivational Quotes

Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

- Sapir, Richard Ben

Best Quotes about Time

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chanel, Coco

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Orben, Robert

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

11.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

12.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

13.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

42.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Wasted time means wasted lives.