Motivational Quotes

Time

The longest day soon comes to an end.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Time

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pericles

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Proverb, English

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

10.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

20.

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 destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

23.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Wells, H.G.

32.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

34.

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Greene, Graham

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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