Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Time

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

Covey, Stephen R.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

Zappa, Frank

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 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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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

22.

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

23.

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

Paul Klee

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Plutarch

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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You love what you find time to do.

33.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Taylor, James

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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

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

Pitman

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

Jonson, Ben

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Levenson, Samuel

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare