Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Orben, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

You love what you find time to do.

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

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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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 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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Fleming, Ian

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted 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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Paz, Octavio

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Bible

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Make a good use of the present.