Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dane, Frank

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Field, Franklin

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Orben, Robert

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Wanamaker, John

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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.

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Pitman

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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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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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Plutarch

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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