Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

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

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

10.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

11.

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Brown, John Mason

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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.

16.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

29.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

32.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

33.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

John F. Kennedy

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

44.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Jef Mallett

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

49.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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