Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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

11.

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

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

21.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Scottish Proverb

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Dane, Frank

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

34.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Marx, Groucho

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

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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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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

41.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Proverb, Polish

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Murdock, Mike

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace