Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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

Fleming, Ian

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Cowley, Abraham

18.

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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Frost, Robert

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Arthorne, John

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De