Motivational Quotes

Time

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Time

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Polish

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

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

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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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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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 spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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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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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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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Buxton, Charles

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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.

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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Maria Edgeworth

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Lakein, Alan

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.