Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Time

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

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.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Fleming, Ian

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

William Shakespeare

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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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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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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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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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

39.

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

Townsend, Robert

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

47.

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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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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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

50.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason