Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buxton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Tracy, Brian

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Murdock, Mike

10.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

15.

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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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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

Marx, Groucho

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, English

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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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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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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

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

28.

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

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bixton, Charles

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom