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

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

William Shakespeare

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Fleming, Ian

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

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

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

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

10.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

11.

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

Lakein, Alan

12.

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

Geneen, Harold S.

13.

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

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The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

15.

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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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 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

18.

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

Jonson, Ben

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

21.

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

Tracy, Brian

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

Paul Klee

25.

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

26.

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

Book, William Frederick

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.

William Shakespeare

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If you haven't got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?

Mayer, Jeffery J.

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

30.

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

Lakein, Alan

31.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

34.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

35.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

37.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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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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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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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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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

44.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

45.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

John F. Kennedy

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

Arthorne, John

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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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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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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