Motivational Quotes

Time

Wasted time means wasted lives.

- Shannon, R.

Best Quotes about Time

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.

Warren, Christine

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

Lakein, Alan

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.

Stephenie Meyer

10.

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

11.

There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.

Proverb, English

12.

Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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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.

15.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

Shannon, R.

16.

The infinite is in the finite of every instant.

17.

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

Fleming, Ian

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

19.

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

20.

How many times have you heard this statement, I haven't time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.

Longden, John

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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

24.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Dickens, Charles

25.

Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

26.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Gissing, George Robert

27.

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 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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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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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

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

Simplot, Jack

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Zappa, Frank

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If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, there goes another day of my life, never to return, you will become time conscious.

Tavern, A. B. Zu

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If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Iacocca, Lee

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Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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