Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

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

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

Brown, John Mason

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Cowley, Abraham

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

10.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

11.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

12.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

13.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

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

Bonnie Friedman

17.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

18.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

19.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

20.

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

21.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

22.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

23.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

24.

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

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Levenson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

29.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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

31.

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

Jonson, Ben

32.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

33.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

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

Buxton, Charles

35.

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

Chanel, Coco

36.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

40.

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

41.

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

Frost, Robert

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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 we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

44.

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

Ovid

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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

46.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

47.

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

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

49.

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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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