Motivational Quotes

Time

Make a good use of the present.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Time

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

Wells, H.G.

2.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Cowley, Abraham

4.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

5.

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

6.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Chanel, Coco

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

13.

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

14.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

17.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

18.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

20.

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

Malcolm Forbes

21.

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

Lakein, Alan

22.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

23.

The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

24.

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

25.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

26.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

27.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

34.

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

Blake, William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Douglas, Norman

38.

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.

39.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

40.

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

41.

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

Dickens, Charles

42.

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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