Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

- Baldwin, Faith

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

10.

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

Jef Mallett

11.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

13.

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

14.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

15.

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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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

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

Book, William Frederick

18.

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.

19.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

25.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

31.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

33.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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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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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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 hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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

Simplot, Jack

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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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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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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Lakein, Alan

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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

50.

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.