Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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 is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Scottish Proverb

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Proverb, French

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

Cowley, Abraham

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Marx, Groucho

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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

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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maria Edgeworth

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I