Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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.

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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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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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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He that rises late must trot all day.