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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Book, William Frederick

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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.

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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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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

24.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Dane, Frank

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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 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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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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Qubein, Nido

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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'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

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

Halifax, Edward F.