Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Time

We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Arthorne, John

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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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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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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 key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

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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 but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Plutarch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Simplot, Jack

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

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

Blake, William

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Levenson, Samuel

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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