Motivational Quotes

Time

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Time

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Kennedy, John F.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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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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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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Scottish Proverb

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Townsend, Robert

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Bixton, Charles

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore