Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Pitman

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Taylor, James

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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

Drucker, Peter F.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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

Bible

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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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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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Orben, Robert

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

42.

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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Mccullers, Carson

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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