Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paul Klee

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Paz, Octavio

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

30.

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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

32.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Wanamaker, John

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Simplot, Jack

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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