Motivational Quotes

Time

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

- Robert Byrne

Best Quotes about Time

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

13.

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

14.

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Taylor, James

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

Townsend, Robert

18.

Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Tracy, Brian

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

25.

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.

26.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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

Scottish Proverb