Motivational Quotes

Time

Soon enough is well enough.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Simplot, Jack

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Douglas, Norman

10.

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

11.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

13.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

22.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

Orben, Robert

26.

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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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

40.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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

43.

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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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 is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis