Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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.

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus