Motivational Quotes

Time

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

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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.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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

Zappa, Frank

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Rosenberg, Harold

I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.

Brown, John Mason

10.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

11.

I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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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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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.

Proverb, French

16.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Murdock, Mike

17.

I am what you will be, I was what you are.

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

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

Bixton, Charles

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

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

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Make a good use of the present.

Horace

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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Townsend, Robert

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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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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 makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Engstrom, Ted W.

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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

Cowley, Abraham

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Marcia, Wieder

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

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.

Lubbock, Sir John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

46.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Bennett, Arnold

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All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

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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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The longest day soon comes to an end.

Proverb

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