Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Montesquieu, Charles De

Best Quotes about Time

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Jonson, Ben

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Levenson, Samuel

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Baltasar Gracian

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

21.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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You love what you find time to do.

30.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Murdock, Mike

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

41.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

42.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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'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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time