Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Time

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Marx, Groucho

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

10.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

13.

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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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

Taylor, James

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

Dane, Frank

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Wells, H.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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Plutarch

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De