Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Ovid

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

Arthorne, John

10.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

11.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

12.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

13.

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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

16.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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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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

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

27.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

32.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Tracy, Brian

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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 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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

39.

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

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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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 the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

45.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

46.

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

Blake, William

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Taylor, James

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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