Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

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

Tracy, Brian

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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.

In politics a week is a very long time.

Wilson, Harold

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

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

Covey, Stephen R.

So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

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

Orben, Robert

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

Bible

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Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

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One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

Litchfield, P. W.

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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.

Jef Mallett

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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.

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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

Baltasar Gracian

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

Dane, Frank

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Time discovered truth.

Seneca

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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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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

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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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City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Hoagland, Edward

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What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

Howe, John

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

Proverb, French

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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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People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

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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 the only critic without ambition.

Steinbeck, John

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.

Updegraff, Robert

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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He who molds the public sentiment... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

William Shakespeare

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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There's quite a lot we don't know about them.

Melanie Benjamin