Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

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

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Proverb, English

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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.

18.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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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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 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

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Greene, Graham

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Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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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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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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

Wells, H.G.

34.

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

Bergman, Jack

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

43.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare