Motivational Quotes

Time

Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Time

Nothing is swifter than our years.

Ovid

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

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

William Shakespeare

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Mann, Horace

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

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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

A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.

Darwin, Charles R.

Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.

Pitman

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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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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

W. Somerset Maugham

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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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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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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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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We must use time creatively -- and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

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

John F. Kennedy

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Wilder, Thornton

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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

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

Berger, John

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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gissing, George Robert

44.

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

Tracy, Brian

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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]

Bible

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

Lakein, Alan

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Hugo, Victor