Motivational Quotes

Time

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

- Mason Cooley

Best Quotes about Time

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

Lakein, Alan

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Proverb, Polish

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.

10.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

14.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

15.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Taylor, James

18.

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Brown, John Mason

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

24.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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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

31.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

32.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

33.

The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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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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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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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 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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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

43.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Berger, John

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

47.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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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.