Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Churchill, Winston

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 hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

12.

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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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Proverb, French

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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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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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

31.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

33.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Rohn, Jim

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Arthorne, John

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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