Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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 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.

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

Ovid

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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 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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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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

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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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Jef Mallett

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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

Simplot, Jack

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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Dane, Frank

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

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