Motivational Quotes

Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

- Boorstin, Daniel J.

Best Quotes about Time

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

10.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

11.

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

18.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Arthorne, John

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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 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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

38.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

39.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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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 the soul of business.

Proverb, English

45.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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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

49.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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