Motivational Quotes

Time

All time management begins with planning.

- Greening, Tom

Best Quotes about Time

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

Book, William Frederick

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

Mccullers, Carson

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

10.

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

12.

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

13.

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied,'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'

John F. Kennedy

14.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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.

21.

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

25.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Scottish Proverb

27.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

28.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

29.

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

30.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

32.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

33.

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

34.

When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

35.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

37.

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

38.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

39.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Wanamaker, John

46.

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

47.

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

Tracy, Brian

48.

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

Field, Franklin

49.

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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Soon enough is well enough.