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

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Paz, Octavio

18.

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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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

29.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

33.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Proverb, English

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

Greene, Graham

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David