Motivational Quotes

Time

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Jonson, Ben

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Mark Twain

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

Simplot, Jack

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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.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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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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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

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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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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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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