Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Geneen, Harold S.

Best Quotes about Time

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

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.

Marx, Karl

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Fleming, Ian

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

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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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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

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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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When we are doing what we love, we don't care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn't exist and we are truly free.

Marcia, Wieder

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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.

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An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

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

Pitman

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

Book, William Frederick

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hodgson, Ralph

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

Proverb, English

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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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

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.