Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Arthorne, John

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Jonson, Ben

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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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 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

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul