Motivational Quotes

Time

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

- Max Frisch

Best Quotes about Time

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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.

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

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Cowley, Abraham

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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 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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Otway, Thomas

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Paul Klee

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Montesquieu, Charles De