Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Time

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

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

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

William Shakespeare

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

Brisbane, Arthur

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Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

13.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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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

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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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Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

17.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

25.

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

Malcolm Forbes

26.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

Paul Klee

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

28.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

31.

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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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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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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

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James

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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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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Levenson, Samuel

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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