Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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.

Pericles

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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Arthorne, John

13.

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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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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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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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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 dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Tracy, Brian

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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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