Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

19.

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

Jef Mallett

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Kennedy, John F.

28.

You love what you find time to do.

29.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

30.

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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Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don't let other people spend it for you.

Dryden, John

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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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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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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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Blake, William

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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.

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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

49.

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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley