Motivational Quotes

Time

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Chanel, Coco

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Simplot, Jack

10.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

12.

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Pitman

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

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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

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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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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

30.

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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

32.

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

Paul Klee

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Taylor, James

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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!