Barack Obama Quotes

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

Potential has a shelf life.

I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.

I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Our time is short and history is watching.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

That window is closing. . . . Now, the clock is ticking. . . . We're not going to have these talks just drag out in a stalling process. . . . We haven't given away anything - other than the opportunity for us to negotiate

I was lucky to book a show pretty quickly after getting to L.A., but I struggled getting started in Vancouver. If I had gotten those earlier roles in Vancouver, I wouldn't have gone to L.A. to get the show that launched my career.

Not a moment longer!

NOW MARK THIS—if the Expeditionary Force, and I ask for no more than 200 men, does not come in 10 days, the town may fall; and I have done the best for the honor of our country. Good Bye

One of the things about the White House is that you know from the moment you walk in there that this has a time limitation. You don't know exactly what it is; it may be the four years you were elected for, or death, but you know it's got a time limitation. And that's one reason why you do as much as you can do, because you know that this will never happen again, and you can drum up the energy from somewhere within you to go more, do more, learn more, for this limited time.

Time is running out on our opportunity to seize our opportunities and solve our problems.

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

Time is a finite resource that you can't get back. I have the same 24 hours you have, and you get the same 24 hours as me. As you rise, so does you chance for opportunity.

It's important to seize the moment. If there's something you want to say, don't put it off, because you might miss your chance.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.

Tennis is a small window. You're not going to have unlimited chances, unlimited opportunities. You can't waste time.

I believe opportunity doesn't knock twice!

Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.