Motivational Quotes

Time

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

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

Buxton, Charles

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

10.

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.

11.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

14.

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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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 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 a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

18.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

21.

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 best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

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

24.

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

Cowley, Abraham

25.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

31.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

32.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

40.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

42.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Pitman

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert