Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Polish

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Plutarch

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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 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

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Malcolm Forbes

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.