Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Taylor, James

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

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

He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Simplot, Jack

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

William Shakespeare

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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 rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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 is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Book, William Frederick

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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

Murdock, Mike

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.