Motivational Quotes

Time

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about 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

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

The woman who says she won't be a minute is usually right.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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

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

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Otway, Thomas

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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.

Angelou, Maya

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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 an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Ovid

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

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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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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Russell, Bertrand

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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

Buscaglia, Leo

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One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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.

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

Proverb, Polish

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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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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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Engstrom, Ted W.