Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

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

Douglas, Norman

10.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

12.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Taylor, James

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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

19.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

21.

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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

27.

You love what you find time to do.

28.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Dane, Frank

30.

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

Townsend, Robert

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

36.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

37.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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 I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Greene, Graham

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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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

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben