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

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Jef Mallett

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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.

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

10.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

11.

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Plutarch

13.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

14.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Dane, Frank

18.

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

Proverb, Polish

19.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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 was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Brown, John Mason

30.

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

Kennedy, John F.

31.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

38.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

40.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

41.

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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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

Maria Edgeworth

45.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert