Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Tracy, Brian

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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 devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

27.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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.

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I