Motivational Quotes

Time

Monday is the key day of the week.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Taylor, James

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Kennedy, John F.

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

Plutarch

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Douglas, Norman

34.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Jonson, Ben

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

40.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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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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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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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