Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Fleming, Ian

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Blake, William

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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 the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Bible

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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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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.