Motivational Quotes

Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

- Half, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Geneen, Harold S.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

10.

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

Book, William Frederick

11.

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

12.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

13.

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

Frost, Robert

14.

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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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

16.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

17.

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

18.

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

Simplot, Jack

19.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Murdock, Mike

25.

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

Pitman

26.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

27.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

28.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

29.

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

Buxton, Charles

30.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

31.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

32.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

34.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

35.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

42.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

49.

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

Wilde, Oscar