Motivational Quotes

Time

Monday is the key day of the week.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Time

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

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

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

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Bible

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Simplot, Jack

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Greene, Graham

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

John F. Kennedy

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm Forbes

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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.