Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

10.

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

Bible

11.

Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

12.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

13.

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

17.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

18.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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

20.

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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

Taylor, James

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

Townsend, Robert

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

28.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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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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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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You love what you find time to do.

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

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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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How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Brown, John Mason

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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