Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Time

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

10.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

11.

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

12.

The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Pitman

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You love what you find time to do.

29.

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

Book, William Frederick

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Lakein, Alan

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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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 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

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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.