Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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

11.

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.

12.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Douglas, Norman

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

18.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

John F. Kennedy

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

31.

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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The longest day soon comes to an end.