Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

- Harper, Lucille S.

Best Quotes about Time

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Simplot, Jack

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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

Geneen, Harold S.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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

Greene, Graham

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Scottish Proverb

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

Proverb, French

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

Pitman

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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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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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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Levenson, Samuel

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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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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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Dane, Frank

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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.

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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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.

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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

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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan