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

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

Dickens, Charles

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

10.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

11.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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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

13.

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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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 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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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Geneen, Harold S.

29.

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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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

32.

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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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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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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

Taylor, James

37.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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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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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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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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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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Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.

Malcolm Forbes

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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