Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Bixton, Charles

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

Lakein, Alan

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

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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

Lakein, Alan

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

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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

10.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

11.

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 the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

14.

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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Taylor, James

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

22.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Proverb, Polish

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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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

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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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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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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

Montesquieu, Charles De