Motivational Quotes

Time

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

You love what you find time to do.

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.

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

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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

Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled... Time, the avenger!

Byron, Lord

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

Murdock, Mike

10.

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

Book, William Frederick

11.

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

Mccullers, Carson

12.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

15.

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

Dickens, Charles

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The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.

Field, Franklin

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

John F. Kennedy

18.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

21.

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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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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One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

Qubein, Nido

24.

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

Pitman

25.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Kennedy, John F.

28.

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

Buxton, Charles

29.

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

Cowley, Abraham

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Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

Richards, Charles

31.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

32.

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

33.

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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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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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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There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Chanel, Coco

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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

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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

40.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Elizabeth I

41.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marx, Groucho

43.

We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

Hummel, Charles E.

44.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

45.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

46.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Maria Edgeworth

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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

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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Review our priorities, ask the question; What's the best use of our time right now?

Lakein, Alan

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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