Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Arthorne, John

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

10.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

11.

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

12.

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

15.

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

Otway, Thomas

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

17.

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

Bonnie Friedman

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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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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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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

24.

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

Jef Mallett

25.

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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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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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

31.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

32.

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

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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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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, John Mason

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Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

40.

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

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

45.

Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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