Motivational Quotes

Time

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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Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Chanel, Coco

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

Orben, Robert

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bixton, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Ovid

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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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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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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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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

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

Frost, Robert

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.