Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Time

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

You love what you find time to do.

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

Blake, William

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Chanel, Coco

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gissing, George Robert

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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 is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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 scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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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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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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Book, William Frederick

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman