Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Time

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Pitman

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

12.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

18.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

19.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

20.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

22.

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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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

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

26.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

27.

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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

31.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

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.

34.

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

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

Arthorne, John

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

Orben, Robert

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

39.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

40.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Blake, William

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.