Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, French

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

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

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.

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.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

10.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

13.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

14.

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

Simplot, Jack

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

18.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

19.

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Pitman

23.

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

Malcolm Forbes

24.

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

25.

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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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

27.

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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

33.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

34.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

35.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

37.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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 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

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

Jonson, Ben

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

43.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Douglas, Norman

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Lakein, Alan