Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Dane, Frank

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Arthorne, John

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

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Orben, Robert

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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 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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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.

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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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 the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace