Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

11.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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You love what you find time to do.

16.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Fleming, Ian

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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

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

34.

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 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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Jonson, Ben

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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 wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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