Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Maria Edgeworth

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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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