Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Pitman

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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

Mccullers, Carson

One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

John F. Kennedy

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Orben, Robert

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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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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Taylor, James

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Simplot, Jack

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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 I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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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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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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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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

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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.