Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

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

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

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.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

10.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Chanel, Coco

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Arthorne, John

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Schwartz, Delmore