Motivational Quotes

Time

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Time

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Wells, H.G.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Darwin, Charles R.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Herbert, George

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year -- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Robbins, Anthony

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

An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

13.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Wilde, Oscar

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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Levenson, Samuel

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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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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Blake, William

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

Brown, John Mason

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Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Waitley, Denis

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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.

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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Orben, Robert

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

Malcolm Forbes

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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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I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.

Ovid

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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.

Grove, Andrew

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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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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it.

Fromm, Erich

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

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

Monday is the key day of the week.

Proverb, Gaelic

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One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

Douglas, Norman

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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

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Proverb, French

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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Paz, Octavio

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

William Shakespeare

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

Geneen, Harold S.

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Time is the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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

Greene, Graham

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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