Motivational Quotes

Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Frost, Robert

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Arthorne, John

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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!

Byron, Lord

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

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

Taylor, James

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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 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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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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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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You love what you find time to do.