Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Darwin, Charles R.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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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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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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

Pitman

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Orben, Robert

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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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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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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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Proverb, English

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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Cowley, Abraham

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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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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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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 is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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