Motivational Quotes

Time

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

- Steinman, Jim

Best Quotes about Time

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

You love what you find time to do.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

John F. Kennedy

10.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

11.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

12.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Bixton, Charles

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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

19.

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

Frost, Robert

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Pitman

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

Kennedy, John F.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Lakein, Alan

32.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

42.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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 you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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

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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