Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Time

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

Field, Franklin

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Plutarch

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Paz, Octavio

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

Book, William Frederick

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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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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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