Motivational Quotes

Time

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

- Jef Mallett

Best Quotes about Time

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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.

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.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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

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

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Plutarch

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

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, English

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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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 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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert