Motivational Quotes

Time

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

- Bixton, Charles

Best Quotes about Time

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

Ovid

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.

Mason Cooley

Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

Sapir, Richard Ben

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.

Harper, Lucille S.

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

Baltasar Gracian

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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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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Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Pericles

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He that rises late must trot all day.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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You love what you find time to do.

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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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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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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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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.

Arthorne, John

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Soon enough is well enough.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Robert Byrne

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I cannot afford to waste my time making money.

Agassiz, Louis

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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Theophrastus

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Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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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Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Greene, Graham

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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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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