Motivational Quotes

Time

What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Best Quotes about Time

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

William Shakespeare

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

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

Jef Mallett

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

Townsend, Robert

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

Maria Edgeworth

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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

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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

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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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 fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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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

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

Book, William Frederick

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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 time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Jonson, Ben

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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