Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Schwartz, Delmore

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Townsend, Robert

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Wells, H.G.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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

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

Orben, Robert

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

Bergman, Jack

33.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

43.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Berger, John

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Book, William Frederick

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben