Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Time

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brown, John Mason

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Book, William Frederick

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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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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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