Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

Eckhart, Meister

10.

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

Buxton, Charles

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

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Be intent on the perfection of the present day.

Law, William

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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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Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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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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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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A man's main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time

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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.

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

Ovid

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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

Twells, Henry

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He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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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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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

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

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Don't serve time, make time serve you

Sutton, William

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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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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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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Jane Austen

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Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Lakein, Alan

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

Malcolm Forbes

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.