Motivational Quotes

Time

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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

You love what you find time to do.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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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 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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

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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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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Lakein, Alan

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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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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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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