Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Brown, John Mason

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

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

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

11.

You love what you find time to do.

12.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

13.

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

14.

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

Blake, William

15.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

16.

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

19.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

20.

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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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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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

23.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

27.

Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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

Taylor, James

29.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

30.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

31.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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

33.

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

34.

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

Frost, Robert

35.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

36.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

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

41.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

42.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

43.

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

Bixton, Charles

44.

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

45.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William