Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Malcolm Forbes

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, French

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.