Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Time

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Dane, Frank

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

10.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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

Proverb, Polish

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Buxton, Charles

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You love what you find time to do.

23.

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

Orben, Robert

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Book, William Frederick

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Maria Edgeworth

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

34.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Paz, Octavio

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Murdock, Mike

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

45.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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.

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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