Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Bixton, Charles

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Qubein, Nido

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

Jonson, Ben

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Buxton, Charles

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Dane, Frank