Motivational Quotes

Time

Make a good use of the present.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Time

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

Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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

11.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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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

15.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

16.

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

Dane, Frank

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

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

Greene, Graham

19.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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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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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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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

26.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

32.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

34.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

37.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Lakein, Alan

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

Taylor, James

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.