Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Buxton, Charles

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Marx, Groucho

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Plutarch

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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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

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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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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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You love what you find time to do.

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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?

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