Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Greene, Graham

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You love what you find time to do.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Marx, Groucho

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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.

34.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.

Jane Austen

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Taylor, James

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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

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

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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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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Maria Edgeworth