Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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

Paul Klee

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

Ovid

He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.

William Shakespeare

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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Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Frost, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, 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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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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

Field, Franklin

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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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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

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Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

Townsend, Robert

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Lakein, Alan

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

Pericles

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Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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.

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must

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You love what you find time to do.

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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