Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bixton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

Plutarch

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

Lakein, Alan

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

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

11.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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.

21.

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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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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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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 I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Lakein, Alan

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von