Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

12.

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

Wells, H.G.

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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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Time is the wisest of all counselors.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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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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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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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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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

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

Bonnie Friedman

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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?