Motivational Quotes

Time

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Best Quotes about Time

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

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

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]