Motivational Quotes

Time

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

- Agassiz, Louis

Best Quotes about Time

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Dickens, Charles

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Book, William Frederick

15.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

24.

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

Chanel, Coco

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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

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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 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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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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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Gissing, George Robert

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Buxton, Charles