Motivational Quotes

Time

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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.

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

Taylor, James

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

William Shakespeare

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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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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 great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

27.

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

32.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Douglas, Norman

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Lakein, Alan

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

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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