Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the soul of business.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

John F. Kennedy

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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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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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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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'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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Paul Klee

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

Mark Twain

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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 coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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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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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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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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 is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Tracy, Brian