Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Time

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Paul Klee

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Maria Edgeworth

10.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Bixton, Charles

12.

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

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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

14.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

15.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

16.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

17.

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

Cowley, Abraham

18.

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

21.

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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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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 is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

29.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

32.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

33.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

34.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

40.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

41.

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.

42.

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Frost, Robert

45.

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

46.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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 hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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