Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Time

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Tracy, Brian

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

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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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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.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

Mccullers, Carson

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Scottish Proverb

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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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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