Motivational Quotes

Time

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Frost, Robert

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gissing, George Robert

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Cowley, Abraham

11.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

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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 cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

34.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

42.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French