Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Hodgson, Ralph

Best Quotes about Time

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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 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

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

11.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Brown, John Mason

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proverb, French

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

22.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 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

28.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Paul Klee

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

Pitman

31.

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

32.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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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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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 is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

49.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy