Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Dane, Frank

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Plutarch

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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.

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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

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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 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

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

William Shakespeare

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.