Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Lakein, Alan

Best Quotes about Time

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Wells, H.G.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Arthorne, John

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

12.

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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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

14.

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

Berger, 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

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

Ovid

20.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Pitman

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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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 makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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You love what you find time to do.

30.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn't care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.

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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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Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

Hodgson, Ralph

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

41.

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

Paz, Octavio

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

45.

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

46.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Come on, Come on, and there'll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

Steinman, Jim

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The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.

Bennet, Arnold

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

Scottish Proverb