Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

- Theophrastus

Best Quotes about Time

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Tracy, Brian

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

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

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

12.

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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

14.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

15.

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

16.

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

Field, Franklin

17.

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

Gissing, George Robert

18.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

21.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

25.

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

Dane, Frank

26.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

27.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

28.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

William Shakespeare

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

John F. Kennedy

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, 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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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

39.

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

40.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Arthorne, John

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

44.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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

46.

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin