Motivational Quotes

Time

For time is the longest distance between two places.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Time

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Orben, Robert

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.

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

10.

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

11.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

12.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

15.

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

16.

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

18.

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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

20.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

21.

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

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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

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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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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

25.

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

Book, William Frederick

26.

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

27.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

28.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

29.

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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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lakein, Alan

33.

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

Bergman, Jack

34.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

John F. Kennedy

36.

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

Fleming, Ian

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

40.

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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

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

Dane, Frank

43.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy