Motivational Quotes

Time

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

Best Quotes about Time

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

Geneen, Harold S.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.

Drucker, Peter F.

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

Bonnie Friedman

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.

William Shakespeare

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.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

11.

All time management begins with planning.

Greening, Tom

12.

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

13.

You love what you find time to do.

14.

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

Lakein, Alan

15.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Blake, William

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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

20.

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

Marx, Groucho

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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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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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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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People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Wanamaker, John

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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Max Frisch

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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

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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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In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.

Lakein, Alan

29.

There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over.

Bergman, Jack

30.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb, French

33.

Time is the soul of business.

Proverb, English

34.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Duras, Marguerite

35.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

Foote, Shelby

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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Chuck Sigars

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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

38.

Time cuts down all, both great and small.

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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.

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

Orben, Robert

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Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker

La Bruyere, Jean De

42.

Nothing'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

William Shakespeare

43.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Baldwin, Faith

45.

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

Montesquieu, Charles De

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

Addison, Joseph