Motivational Quotes

Time

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

- Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

John F. Kennedy

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Buxton, Charles

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

13.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

14.

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

15.

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

16.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

17.

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

18.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

19.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bergman, Jack

22.

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

Otway, Thomas

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

24.

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

29.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

30.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

31.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

32.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

33.

Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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

42.

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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

44.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Paul Klee

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

49.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.