Motivational Quotes

Time

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

- Maria Edgeworth

Best Quotes about Time

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

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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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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?

Success Magazine

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

Malcolm Forbes

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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

19.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Pitman

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

Blake, William

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

32.

Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul Klee

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

Paz, Octavio

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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

Proverb, Polish

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

Lakein, Alan

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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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There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful

Rilke, Rainer Maria