Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Bixton, Charles

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

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.

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

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Douglas, Norman

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

Proverb, English

21.

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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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Cowley, Abraham

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Maria Edgeworth

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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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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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

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

Murdock, Mike

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

42.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Paul Klee

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.