Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

- Borges, Jorge Luis

Best Quotes about Time

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

John F. Kennedy

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Field, Franklin

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Marx, Groucho

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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

Paul Klee

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