Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Time

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tracy, Brian

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Dane, Frank

10.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

11.

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

13.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

14.

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.

15.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

16.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

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

18.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

19.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

23.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

28.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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

30.

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

Malcolm Forbes

31.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

34.

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

Blake, William

35.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

36.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

37.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

38.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

39.

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

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

42.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

43.

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

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish