Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

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

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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.

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.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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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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

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Buxton, Charles

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You love what you find time to do.

33.

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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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