Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

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.

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.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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

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

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

Mccullers, Carson

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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

11.

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

Malcolm Forbes

12.

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

Frost, Robert

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No man goes before his time -- unless the boss leaves early.

Marx, Groucho

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

Wanamaker, John

15.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

16.

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

Ovid

18.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Buxton, Charles

20.

You love what you find time to do.

21.

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.

22.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Jonson, Ben

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

Half, Robert

27.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

28.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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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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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Book, William Frederick

32.

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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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

34.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

Greene, Graham

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Boone, Louis E.

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Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

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

Schwartz, Delmore

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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Covey, Stephen R.

49.

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

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Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

Taylor, James