Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Taylor, James

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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

Marx, Groucho

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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.

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

10.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

11.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

12.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

13.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

18.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

21.

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

25.

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

26.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

27.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

28.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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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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

31.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

32.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

33.

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

Cowley, Abraham

34.

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

Lakein, Alan

35.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

37.

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

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

39.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

43.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

44.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

45.

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

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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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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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