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

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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

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

Brown, John Mason

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

20.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

21.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Book, William Frederick

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

25.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

26.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

27.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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

29.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

30.

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

31.

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.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

33.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

34.

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

35.

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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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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 the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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 fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

41.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Buxton, Charles

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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'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

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Bixton, Charles

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