Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Maria Edgeworth

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 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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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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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 cuts down all, both great and small.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Lakein, Alan

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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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 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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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 is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare