Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Time

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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

Paul Klee

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

Wells, H.G.

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Mark Twain

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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

Orben, Robert

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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

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

Cowley, Abraham

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

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Fleming, Ian

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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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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.

Proverb, French

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There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

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A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

Book, William Frederick

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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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 has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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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

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Murdock, Mike

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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