Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Zappa, Frank

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Plutarch

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

Orben, Robert

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.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Fleming, Ian

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

32.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

40.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Berger, John

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William