Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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

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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

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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

31.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles