Motivational Quotes

Time

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

You love what you find time to do.

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

Levenson, Samuel

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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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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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

18.

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

Townsend, Robert

19.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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 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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, French

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

Dickens, Charles

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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.

Yeats, William Butler

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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