Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

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

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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 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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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 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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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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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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You love what you find time to do.

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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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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Arthorne, John

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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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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Kennedy, John F.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.