Motivational Quotes

Time

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

John F. Kennedy

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Tracy, Brian

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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

Arthorne, John

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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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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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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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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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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time discovered truth.