Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Mayer, Jeffery J.

Best Quotes about Time

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Spencer, Herbert

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Lerner, Max

Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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

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.

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

John F. Kennedy

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

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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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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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

Scottish Proverb

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I am what you will be, I was what you are.

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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

Bixton, Charles

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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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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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

Lakein, Alan

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When the time is right, you just got to do it.

Simplot, Jack

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Fleming, Ian

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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

Pitman

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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

Proverb, French

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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'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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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French