Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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.

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

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Mark Twain

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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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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 rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Chanel, Coco

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Levenson, Samuel

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You love what you find time to do.

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars