Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

Fleming, Ian

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

10.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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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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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 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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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You love what you find time to do.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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