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

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

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

Marx, Groucho

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

18.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

24.

In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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 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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Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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.

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

Buxton, Charles

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Greene, Graham

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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