Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Polish

12.

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

14.

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

John F. Kennedy

15.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fleming, Ian

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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

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Arthorne, John

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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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 money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

27.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

30.

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

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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.

43.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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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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

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo