Motivational Quotes

Time

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

- Proverb, Polish

Best Quotes about Time

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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.

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Simplot, Jack

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.