Motivational Quotes

Time

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

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Best Quotes about Time

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

Jef Mallett

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

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.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Scottish Proverb

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

11.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

12.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Arthorne, John

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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.

24.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Wells, H.G.

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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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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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Frost, Robert

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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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

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Levenson, Samuel