Motivational Quotes

Time

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

- Foote, Shelby

Best Quotes about Time

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.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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 school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.