Motivational Quotes

Time

All time management begins with planning.

- Greening, Tom

Best Quotes about Time

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Greene, Graham

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.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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

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

Pericles

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Arthorne, John

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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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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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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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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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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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 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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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 what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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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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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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.