Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pitman

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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.

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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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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

16.

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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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

18.

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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

26.

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 I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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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.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

43.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb, French

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen