Motivational Quotes

Time

All time management begins with planning.

- Greening, Tom

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

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.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ovid

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

10.

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

13.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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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

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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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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

John F. Kennedy

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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 is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, Polish

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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

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While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Douglas, Norman