Motivational Quotes

Time

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Time

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

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Fleming, Ian

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.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Townsend, Robert

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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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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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Bible

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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

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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 whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Taylor, James

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.