Motivational Quotes

Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

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.

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

10.

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

11.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

13.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

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

John F. Kennedy

15.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

16.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

17.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

18.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Mccullers, Carson

20.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

21.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

22.

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

23.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

25.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

26.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

27.

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

28.

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

Simplot, Jack

29.

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

Cowley, Abraham

30.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

33.

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

Jonson, Ben

34.

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maria Edgeworth

37.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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

39.

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

40.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

Wanamaker, John

43.

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

Buxton, Charles

44.

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

45.

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

Proverb, Polish

46.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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

50.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De