Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Baltasar Gracian

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

11.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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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

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Book, William Frederick

25.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Arthorne, John

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

44.

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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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