Motivational Quotes

Time

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Time

The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Schwartz, Delmore

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

Lakein, Alan

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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.

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.

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Mark Twain

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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We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1 30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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 is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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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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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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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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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

Quinn, Jane Bryant

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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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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Baltasar Gracian

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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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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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

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A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Yeats, William Butler

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

35.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable.

Swatch

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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

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

Scottish Proverb

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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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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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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.