Motivational Quotes

Time

All my possessions for a moment of time.

- Elizabeth I

Best Quotes about Time

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

16.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

24.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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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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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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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Cowley, Abraham