Motivational Quotes

Time

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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Best Quotes about Time

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

Kennedy, John F.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lincoln, Abraham

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Jonson, Ben

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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

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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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Mark Twain

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Plutarch

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Arthorne, John

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert