Motivational Quotes

Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Wanamaker, John

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Chanel, Coco

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

20.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

21.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

26.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

27.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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.

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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

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Cowley, Abraham