Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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

Malcolm Forbes

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Orben, Robert

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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 is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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You love what you find time to do.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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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

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

Murdock, Mike

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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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

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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

Pericles

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

Kennedy, John F.