Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Field, Franklin

Best Quotes about Time

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Plutarch

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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 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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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

Murdock, Mike

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Bixton, Charles

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis