Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Time

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

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

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.

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

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Plutarch

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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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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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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Mark Twain

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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 am what you will be, I was what you are.

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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.

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

Arthorne, John

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

Taylor, James

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Jonson, Ben

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.