Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

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

Orben, Robert

You love what you find time to do.

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

Taylor, James

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

Chesterfield, Lord

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

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

Pitman

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

10.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

12.

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

13.

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

Paul Klee

14.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

15.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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

Wells, H.G.

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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

18.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

21.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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.

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

27.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

28.

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

29.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

30.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

Scottish Proverb

34.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

35.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

36.

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

37.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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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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

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

47.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

48.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

49.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

50.

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.