Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Gissing, George Robert

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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.

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.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

13.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

16.

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

Jonson, Ben

17.

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.

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

21.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

22.

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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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

26.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

28.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

34.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

35.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

36.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

37.

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

Book, William Frederick

40.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

41.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

42.

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

43.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

44.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

45.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.