Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Time

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

Geneen, Harold S.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

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

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

Proverb, Polish

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Now is the watchword of the wise.

Proverb

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

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.

Scottish Proverb

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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.

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You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.

Lee, Ivy

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

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

Pitman

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Greene, Graham

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

Bergman, Jack

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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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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.