Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

33.

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Townsend, Robert

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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 wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Buxton, Charles

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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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