Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Arthorne, John

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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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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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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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 hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Berger, John

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

21.

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

Book, William Frederick

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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

24.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

26.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Ovid

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When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

Hannibal Buress

33.

You love what you find time to do.

34.

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

Proverb, French

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

38.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Pitman

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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

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.