Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Arthorne, John

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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

Berger, John

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

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Douglas, Norman

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Proverb, French

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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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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Simplot, Jack