Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Polish

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

10.

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

11.

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

12.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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.

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

21.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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

Taylor, James

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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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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

28.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

29.

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

Lakein, Alan

30.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Arthorne, John

33.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

35.

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

William Shakespeare

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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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

Greene, Graham

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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.