Motivational Quotes

Time

All time management begins with planning.

- Greening, Tom

Best Quotes about Time

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

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.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

12.

Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

Dane, Frank

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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.

18.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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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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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Bonnie Friedman

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

Malcolm Forbes

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

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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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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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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

33.

Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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 best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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The idea is to make decisions and act on them -- to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.

Kakascik, Karen

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wilde, Oscar