Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bonnie Friedman

Best Quotes about Time

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

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

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

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

Simplot, Jack

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Baltasar Gracian

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

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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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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 that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.

Reports, Boardroom

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

Townsend, 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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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fleming, Ian

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Greene, Graham

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

Wells, H.G.

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho