Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Rosenberg, Harold

10.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

11.

What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

12.

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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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

14.

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

15.

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

Dane, Frank

16.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

17.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

18.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

20.

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

23.

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

24.

The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

25.

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

26.

Reports, Boardroom

27.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

28.

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Book, William Frederick

30.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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

33.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

34.

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 best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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

38.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

39.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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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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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Brown, John Mason

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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

49.

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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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