Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Tracy, Brian

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

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

Maria Edgeworth

10.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

11.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

12.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

13.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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You love what you find time to do.

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute -- then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Polish

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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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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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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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

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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

35.

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 great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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

Fleming, Ian

46.

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 is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

49.

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

Bible

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