Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

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 money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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

Zappa, Frank

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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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.

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Proverb, French

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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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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Murdock, Mike

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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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 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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.