Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Simplot, Jack

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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

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.

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

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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 Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Orben, Robert

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

Taylor, James

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid