Motivational Quotes

Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Time

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Buscaglia, Leo

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

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.

10.

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

Marx, Groucho

11.

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

12.

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

Paz, Octavio

13.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

14.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

21.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Chanel, Coco

30.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

40.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

Zappa, Frank

44.

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

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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

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.