Motivational Quotes

Time

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.

Best Quotes about Time

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

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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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

15.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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.

20.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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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

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

34.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

38.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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