Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Malcolm Forbes

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Geneen, Harold S.

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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 king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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.

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brisbane, Arthur

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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 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 = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.