Motivational Quotes

Time

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Greene, Graham

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

10.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

22.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Blake, William

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

26.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

27.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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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 money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

33.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

43.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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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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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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John