Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

10.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

Malcolm Forbes

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Pitman

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

Buxton, Charles

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Levenson, Samuel

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

33.

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

Orben, 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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dane, Frank

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

40.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Taylor, James

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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

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare