Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

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.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

10.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

14.

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

Simplot, Jack

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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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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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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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

Arthorne, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

30.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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