Motivational Quotes

Time

All time management begins with planning.

- Greening, Tom

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

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.

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Pitman

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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 should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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

Dickens, Charles

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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen