Motivational Quotes

Time

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Frost, Robert

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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You love what you find time to do.

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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

34.

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

35.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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