Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

Buxton, Charles

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

10.

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

Taylor, James

11.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maria Edgeworth

13.

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Jonson, Ben

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

39.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

40.

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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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