Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Bixton, Charles

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

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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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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

Bible

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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 discovered truth.

Seneca

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Paul Klee

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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.