Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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

Greene, Graham

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

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

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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 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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

49.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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